clearing

clearing

English

Etymology

From clear +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪɚ.ɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
• Hyphenation: clear‧ing

Verb

clearing

1. present participle of clear

Noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

1. The act or process of making or becoming clear.
2. An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

3. An open space in the fog etc.
4. (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
5. (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
6. (Britain, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
7. (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

   Synonym: clearance

Synonyms

• (area devoid of trees): glade

Derived terms

• burn-clearing
• clearing bank
• clearing house
• market clearing
• mine-clearing

 

Translations

act or process of making or becoming clear

Basque: argitzen Bulgarian: разчистване n (razčistvane), проясняване (projasnjavane) Esperanto: klarigo, klarigo, klariĝo Finnish: selvittäminen (fi), selvitys (fi) French: clarification (fr) f German: Klärung (de) f, Aufklärung (de) f Italian: schiarimento m Portuguese: clareamento m, clarificação m, esclarecimento (pt) Russian: очи́стка (ru) f (očístka), расчи́стка (ru) f (rasčístka) Spanish: clarificando (es)

area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees

Armenian: բացատ (hy) (bacʿat) Bashkir: аҡлан (aqlan) Basque: argiune Bulgarian: сечище n (sečište), просека f (proseka) Catalan: clariana f Czech: mýtina (cs) f, paseka (cs) f Danish: lysning (da) c Dutch: loo (nl) n, tra (nl) f, laar (nl) n Esperanto: maldensejo, senarbejo Estonian: lagendik, raiesmik Finnish: aukea (fi), metsäaukea; aukio (fi) French: clairière (fr) f German: Lichtung (de) f, Rodung (de) f, Waldlichtung (de) f, Kahlschlagsfläche f Greek: ξέφωτο (el) n (xéfoto) Hungarian: tisztás (hu), irtás (hu), irtvány Icelandic: rjóður (is) Irish: réiteach m Italian: radura (it) Latvian: izcirtums Livonian: lagdõ, mõtsālagdõ Macedonian: чистина (čistina) Maori: waerenga Norman: clièrgeon m Old English: lēah m Old Norse: þveit Polish: poręba (pl) f Portuguese: clareira (pt) f Romansch: cleragl m Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána) Scottish Gaelic: glac f, blàran coille m Spanish: desmonte (es) m, claro (es) m Swedish: glänta (sv) c Tagalog: palanas, tahaw Ukrainian: поля́на f (poljána), галя́ва f (haljáva), галя́вина (uk) f (haljávyna) Welsh: llannerch f

open space in the fog etc

Chinese: Mandarin: 空地 (zh) (kòngdì) Esperanto: maldensejo Finnish: aukko (fi) German: Nebellichtung f Italian: spiazzo (it) m Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána)

process of completing and settling transactions centrally

Bulgarian: клиринг (bg) m (kliring) Finnish: clearing (fi), selvitys (fi) German: Clearing n, Geldausgleich m, Verrechnung (de) f, Zahlungsausgleich unter Banken m, Abrechnungsverkehr m Indonesian: kliring (id) Italian: compensazione (it) f Russian: кли́ринг (ru) m (klíring) Spanish: compensación (es) f

sequence of events used to disconnect a call

Finnish: erottaminen (fi) German: Freischaltung (de) f Italian: resettaggio m, ripristino (it) m, azzeramento (it) m

soccer: act of removing the ball from one's own goal area — see clearance

Anagrams

• clangier, relacing

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Finnish

Etymology

From English clearing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklie̯riŋː/, [ˈklie̞̯riŋː]

Noun

clearing

1. (banking, finance) clearing

   Synonym: selvitys

Declension

Inflection of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		clearing	clearingit
genitive		clearingin	clearingien
partitive		clearingiä	clearingejä
illative		clearingiin	clearingeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		clearing	clearingit
accusative	nom.	clearing	clearingit
	gen.	clearingin
genitive		clearingin	clearingien
partitive		clearingiä	clearingejä
inessive		clearingissä	clearingeissä
elative		clearingistä	clearingeistä
illative		clearingiin	clearingeihin
adessive		clearingillä	clearingeillä
ablative		clearingiltä	clearingeiltä
allative		clearingille	clearingeille
essive		clearinginä	clearingeinä
translative		clearingiksi	clearingeiksi
instructive		—	clearingein
abessive		clearingittä	clearingeittä
comitative		—	clearingeineen

Possessive forms of clearing (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	clearingini	clearingimme
2nd person	clearingisi	clearinginne
3rd person	clearinginsä

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Romanian

Etymology

From English clearing.

Noun

clearing n (uncountable)

1. (banking, finance) clearing

Declension

declension of clearing (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) clearing	clearingul
genitive/dative	(unui) clearing	clearingului
vocative	clearingule

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Spanish

Noun

clearing m (plural clearings)

1. (finance) clearing