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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clearing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clearing bank (=one of the banks in Britain that uses a clearing house when dealing with other banks)
▪ large commercial customers of the clearing banks
clearing bank
clearing house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
▪ The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing.
▪ To arrive at this moment, Packard spent the early 1980s locating small, flowery clearings in the thickets of Illinois woods.
▪ They had not gone far, when they had stepped into a small clearing.
▪ Logging roads go off to both sides, and there are many small recent clearings.
▪ We made our camp in a small clearing by the top of the falls.
▪ Then, after quite a while, we came to a small clearing.
▪ It circled the small clearing warily, catching the light and jerking as it did so, moving quickly into shadow.
▪ Dusk was beginning to touch the forest and deep shadows lay across the small clearing where they sat down.
■ NOUN
bank
▪ The clearing banks used to change their interest rates on advances and deposits automatically by the same amount that Bank rate changed.
▪ Open market operations are made via the discount houses, but can also be conducted directly with the major clearing banks.
▪ There is nothing to stop you doing most of your business with your main clearing bank if the rates are competitive.
▪ We believe we have more experience in helping franchisees and franchisors than any other clearing bank.
▪ From the 1930s, the clearing banks directly linked their interest rates to Bank Rate.
▪ These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.
▪ According to analysts at Lehman Brothers, the nine main clearing banks combined have averaged annual ROEs of less than 7% since 1988.
▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.
house
▪ The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
▪ Out-of-hours trading is permitted by the clearing house and can account for up to a third of on-exchange trading.
▪ Overburdened by commitments elsewhere, Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives.
▪ Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.
▪ Instead, both buyer and seller pay an initial margin, and these payments are held by the clearing house.
▪ The clearing house then matches long and short positions and assigns a short to make delivery to a long.
▪ The Exchange intends that the new clearing house will be jointly owned.
▪ The clearing house is also protected from excessive credit risk through the operation of a system of daily price limits.
market
▪ What would happen if the real rate w 1, a value in excess of the market clearing real wage, w *;?
▪ Suppose that the union lifts the level of wages above the perfectly competitive market clearing wage, thus creating some unemployment.
▪ The market clearing paradigm is reasonably robust and the Rational Expectations assumption is here most plausible.
▪ But there is a second justification for the market clearing approach.
▪ There is nothing in the criteria which it stipulates for rational behaviour that confines its application to a market clearing framework.
▪ The full employment aggregate supply function is that unique function corresponding to the market clearing real wage rate, w *;.
member
▪ There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member.
▪ The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
▪ Provision is also made for the amendment of the regulations themselves by notice to exchanges and clearing members.
▪ Such a charge is not registrable against the clearing member under s 395 of the Companies Act 1985.
system
▪ It is fundamental to an effective and reliable clearing system.
▪ The clearing system, being nationwide and increasingly computerized, makes for a very efficient system of transmitting payments.
▪ As credits pass through the clearing system, they are collected in a specially designated account and transferred to magnetic tape.
▪ They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A small deer stood on the edge of the clearing.
▪ In the clearing, there was a small cottage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first their station buildings were primitive affairs, no more than clearings in the bush with tin huts.
▪ But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling.
▪ From the edge of one of these clearings Chloe suddenly flushed a sepoy.
▪ Logging roads go off to both sides, and there are many small recent clearings.
▪ She managed to contact him in Florida, as the clearing up got under way.
▪ The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof in the middle of a clearing.
▪ While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance, the wall had extended several metres across the clearing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clearing

Clearing \Clear"ing\, n.

  1. The act or process of making clear.

    The better clearing of this point.
    --South.

  2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.

    A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake.
    --J. Burroughs.

  3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.

    Note: In England, a similar method has been adopted by railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other.

  4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.

    Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

Clearing

Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]

  1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.

    He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
    --Dryden.

  2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

  3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.

    Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear.
    --Prior.

  4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.

    Our common prints would clear up their understandings.
    --Addison

  5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.

    Clear your mind of cant.
    --Dr. Johnson.

    A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
    --Addison.

  6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.

    I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
    --Dryden.

    How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?
    --Addison.

  7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.

  8. To gain without deduction; to net.

    The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
    --Macaulay.

    To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.

    To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.

    To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.

    To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.

    To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clearing

late 14c., "action of making clear," verbal noun from clear (v.). Meaning "land cleared of wood" is from 1818, American English.

Wiktionary
clearing

n. 1 The act or process of making or becoming clear. 2 An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees. vb. (present participle of clear English)

WordNet
clearing
  1. n. a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area [syn: glade]

  2. the act of freeing from suspicion

  3. the act of removing solid particles from a liquid [syn: clarification]

Wikipedia
Clearing

Clearing may refer to:

  • Clearing (forest), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
  • Clearing (finance), the process of settling a transaction after committing to it
  • Clearing, Chicago, a community area in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  • Clearing (telecommunications), the disconnecting of a call
  • Clearing (album), an album by Fred Frith
  • The Clearing, a 2004 drama film
  • Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland
  • Market clearing, the matching of supply and demand via price movement
  • Yarn clearing, in textile industry
  • Clearing, a practice in Scientology.
  • Clearing, a process used by the UK's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) to enable unplaced students to apply for courses with vacancies directly to the university.
Clearing (geography)

The clearing of woods and forests is the process by which vegetation, such as trees and bushes, together with their roots are permanently removed. The main aim of this process is to clear areas of forest, woodland or scrub in order to use the soil for another purpose, such as pasture land, arable farming, human settlement or the construction of roads or railways.

Clearing (finance)

In banking and finance, clearing denotes all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. Clearing of payments is necessary to turn the promise of payment (for example, in the form of a cheque or electronic payment request) into actual movement of money from one bank to another.

In trading, clearing is necessary because the speed of trades is much faster than the cycle time for completing the underlying transaction. It involves the management of post-trading, pre-settlement credit exposures to ensure that trades are settled in accordance with market rules, even if a buyer or seller should become insolvent prior to settlement. Processes included in clearing are reporting/monitoring, risk margining, netting of trades to single positions, tax handling, and failure handling.

Systemically important payment systems (SIPS) are payment systems which have the characteristic that a failure of these systems could potentially endanger the operation of the whole economy. In general, these are the major payment clearing or real-time gross settlement systems of individual countries, but in the case of Europe, there are certain pan-European payment systems. TARGET2 is a pan-European SIPS dealing with major inter-bank payments. STEP2, operated by the Euro Banking Association is a major pan-European clearing system for retail payments which has the potential to become a SIPS. The Federal Reserve System is a SIPS.

Clearing (telecommunications)

Clearing, in telecommunications means:

  • A sequence of events used to disconnect a call and return to the ready state. It is sometimes, particularly in the context of common-channel signaling, called teardown.
  • Removal of data from an AIS, its storage devices, and other peripheral devices with storage capacity, in such a way that the data may not be reconstructed using normal system capabilities (i.e., through the keyboard).

Note: An AIS need not be disconnected from any external network before clearing takes place. Clearing enables a product to be reused within, but not outside of, a secure facility. It does not produce a declassified product by itself, but may be the first step in the declassification process.

Clearing (album)

Clearing is a guitar solo album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was Frith's first solo guitar recording since Live in Japan (1982) and his first solo guitar studio recording since his landmark 1974 album Guitar Solos.

Clearing comprises eleven tracks of unaccompanied and improvised music played on prepared guitars by Frith. Ten of the tracks were recorded in Stuttgart, Germany in 1996 and 2000, and one was recorded live at the Konstrukcja w Procesie Festival VII in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2000.

AllMusic said this of the album:

Usage examples of "clearing".

It is absolutely not an experience not an experience of momentary states, not an experience of self, not an experience of no-self, not an experience of relaxing, not an experience of surrendering: it is the Empty opening or clearing in which all of those experiences come and go, an opening or clearing that, were it not always already perfectly Present, no experiences could arise in the first place.

The RTAF Hueys and the Marine helos on loan to the Thai airmobile forces lifted from the jungle clearing at almost the same moment that the American Hornets were hitting SAM sites at U Feng and along the Taeng River Valley.

A clearing appeared around me, and Alder stood beside me with a big grin on his face.

As the aeroplane tore higher into the thin atmosphere, out of the window Mandelstim could see the many, many camps, each a white clearing in the forest, like patches of nervous alopecia in a dark green beard.

In the clearing around the Twins many of the Amar were already asleep, rolled tight into their sleeping leathers, their heads covered, their toes naked to the darkening night.

The Amar knelt beside him in their circle lying hidden outside a broad clearing.

Et Avian close behind, burst into the clearing between the she-bears and cubs.

Jensens were talking as they walked across the clearing from their bivouac tent.

The overcaptain bolted upright at the table, his blade clearing the sheath, his face twisted in anger.

On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.

The Gopher borer sat hunched down on the surface outside the dome, and the dozers were still clearing the huge masses of pulverized rock the Gopher had heaved back toward the surface.

After a time, he left Cissy to stay with her, and walked about the clearing.

Then Coom took a small wood wand from her pouch and drew a circle in the dirt around the clearing.

The self-system, in other words, is the regime or codon of the human holon, and like all regimes, it is the opening or clearing in which correlative holons can manifest: it is Emptiness looking out through a separate self until that self simply reverts to Emptiness per se.

In the morning my coughing and clearing of my throat would almost strangle me.