clearing

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪərɪŋ

Verb

clearing

1. Present participle of clear.

Noun

clearing (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.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, The Celebrity:

     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. (UK) 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.

Translations

act or process of making or becoming clear

• Bulgarian: разчистване n (razčistvane), проясняване (projasnjavane)
• Esperanto: klarigo, klarigo, klariĝo
• Finnish: selvittäminen, selvitys (fi)

• German: Klärung (de) f, Aufklärung (de) f
• Portuguese: clareamento m, clarificação m, esclarecimento (pt)
• Russian: очистка (ru) f (očístka), расчистка (ru) f (rasčístka)

area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees

• Bulgarian: сечище n (sečište), просека f (proseka)
• Catalan: clariana f
• Esperanto: maldensejo, senarbejo
• Finnish: aukea, metsäaukea; aukio (fi)
• French: clairière (fr)
• German: Lichtung (de) f, Rodung f
• Greek: ξέφωτο (el) n (xéfoto)
• Hungarian: tisztás (hu)
• Italian: radura (it)

• Jèrriais: clièrgeon m
• Maori: waerenga
• Old Norse: þveit
• Polish: poręba f
• Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
• Russian: поляна (ru) f (poljána)
• Scottish Gaelic: glac f, blàran coille m
• Spanish: desmonte (es) m, claro (es) m
• Swedish: glänta (sv) c

open space in the fog etc

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空地 (zh) (kòngdì)

• Esperanto: maldensejo

• Finnish: aukko (fi)
• Russian: поляна (ru) f (poljána)

process of completing and settling transactions centrally

• Bulgarian: клиринг (bg) m (kliring)
• Finnish: clearing, selvitys (fi)

• Russian: клиринг (ru) m (klíring)

sequence of events used to disconnect a call

• Finnish: erottaminen (fi)

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

• Spanish: despeje (es) m

• Swedish: rensning c

Anagrams

• clangier
• relacing

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Finnish

Noun

clearing

1. (banking, finance) clearing

Declension

Declension of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti)

	singular	plural
nominative	clearing	clearingit
genitive	clearingin	clearingien
partitive	clearingiä	clearingejä
accusative	clearingin	clearingit
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