clear the neighborhood
English
Alternative forms
- clear the neighbourhood
Verb
clear the neighborhood (third-person singular simple present clears the neighborhood, present participle clearing the neighborhood, simple past and past participle cleared the neighborhood)
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to become gravitationally dominant, such that there are no other bodies of comparable size within its orbit, other than its natural satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.
- Clearing the neighborhood is one of three necessary criteria for a celestial body to be considered a planet in the Solar System, according to the definition adopted in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clear, the, neighborhood.
- 2013 February 5, Dennis Mahoney, Fellow Mortals: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 2012028948, OCLC 795174314, page 73:
- He clears the neighborhood and drives toward the busier part of town, unaware he's doing fifty till he skids to meet a red light.
- 2014 December 26, Karen R. Miller, Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit, NYU Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1175630844, page 250:
- Detroit officials could have built the housing projects before they cleared the neighborhood.
- 2014, Melissa Estes Blair, Revolutionizing Expectations: Women's Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2014005791, OCLC 1277351573, page 37:
- Since 1969 the group had supported clearing the neighborhood so that a community college could be built on the land.
- 2019 August 27, William E. Fork, “Haifa Street, Battle of (January 6–9, 2007)”, in Spencer C. Tucker, editor, Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, volume 2, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, LCCN 2019021604, OCLC 1099541849, page 496:
- Following an unsuccessful attempt by Iraqi soldiers to clear the neighborhood on January 8, American troops prepared a full-scale offensive to assist the Iraqis.
- 2021 March 30, Nathaniel Rich, Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, OCLC 1159759766:
- To visualize how the Lower Ninth looked before the city's formal campaign to clear the neighborhood, you had to understand that it no longer resembled an urban or even suburban environment.