clearance

noun clearances

1. countable, uncountable The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared. In conclusion, it must be reiterated that effective snow clearance is largely a matter of forward planning and departmental co-operation.
2. countable, uncountable The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
3. countable, uncountable The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom. Clearance on these freeway overpasses is limited, so big trucks must detour.
4. countable, uncountable A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel. The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
5. countable, uncountable A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information. In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other st
6. countable, uncountable A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
7. countable, uncountable A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise; sometimes as a closeout.
8. countable, uncountable The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
9. countable, uncountable The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
10. countable, uncountable The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
11. countable, uncountable The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending. Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.

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12. countable, uncountable Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
13. countable, uncountable Clear or net profit. There can, I believe, be no doubt of this, that sugar can be made better and cheaper in large quantities than in small. But the clearance, sir; that is the question. How would this affect the clearance? The sugar manufacturer would want his profit.
14. countable, uncountable The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
15. countable, uncountable The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.