clearing

From clear + -ing.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
• (Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈklɪːɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
• Hyphenation: clear‧ing

clearing

1. present participle and gerund of clear

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

1. The act or process of making or becoming clear.
3. 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:

     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.

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

   Synonym: clearance

• (area devoid of trees): glade

• clangier, relacing

From English clearing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklie̯riŋ/, [ˈklie̞̯riŋ]
• Rhymes: -ieriŋ

clearing

1. (banking, finance) clearing

   Synonym: selvitys

• “clearing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Unadapted borrowing from English clearing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkli.riŋk/
• Rhymes: -iriŋk
• Syllabification: clea‧ring

clearing m inan

1. (banking, finance) alternative spelling of kliring

• “clearing”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from English clearing.

clearing n (uncountable)

1. (banking, finance) clearing

• IPA^(key): /ˈkliɾin/ [ˈkli.ɾĩn]
  • Rhymes: -iɾin
• IPA^(key): /ˈkliɾinɡ/ [ˈkli.ɾĩŋɡ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾinɡ
• Syllabification: clea‧ring

clearing m (plural clearings)

1. (finance) clearing