Clearing

Clearing

Clearing may refer to:

  • Glade (geography), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
  • Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland
  • Clearing (finance), the process of settling a transaction after committing to it
  • Market clearing, the matching of supply and demand via price movement
  • Clearing, Chicago, a community area in Chicago, US
  • Clearing (telecommunications), the disconnecting of a call
  • Clearing (UCAS), used by some applicants applying for higher education courses in the UK – helps applicants without places to find institutions with courses that still have places available
  • Clearing (album), an album by Fred Frith
  • Yarn clearing, in textile industry

See also

  • Clear (disambiguation)
  • Clearance (disambiguation)

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  • clearing — [ kliriŋ ] n. m. • 1912; clearing house 1833; mot angl. « compensation » ♦ Anglic.; comm., fin. Technique de règlement par compensation, visant à éviter des transferts (de titres, de fonds). ⇒ compensation. Accords de clearing, entre pays, en… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • clearing — index exoneration Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 clearing …   Law dictionary

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  • clearing — land cleared of wood, 1670s, from noun use of prp. of CLEAR (Cf. clear) …   Etymology dictionary

  • clearing — m DEFINICIJA v. kliring …   Hrvatski jezični portal

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  • clearing — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 7}}[wym. kliring]{{/stl 7}}{{stl 17}}ZOB. {{/stl 17}}{{stl 7}}kliring {{/stl 7}} …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

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