clearing

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪərɪŋ

Verb

clearing

1. present participle of clear

Noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, 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, in 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. (Britain, education) 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.

Synonyms

• (area devoid of trees): glade

Translations

act or process of making or becoming clear

• Bulgarian: разчистване n (razčistvane), проясняване (projasnjavane)
• Esperanto: klarigo, klarigo, klariĝo
• Finnish: selvittäminen (fi), selvitys (fi)
• German: Klärung (de) f, Aufklärung (de) f

• Italian: schiarimento m
• Portuguese: clareamento m, clarificação m, esclarecimento (pt)
• Russian: очи́стка (ru) f (očístka), расчи́стка (ru) f (rasčístka)

area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees

• Bashkir: аҡлан (aqlan)
• Bulgarian: сечище n (sečište), просека f (proseka)
• Catalan: clariana f
• Czech: mýtina f, paseka (cs) f
• Dutch: loo (nl) n, tra (nl) f, laar (nl) n
• Esperanto: maldensejo, senarbejo
• Finnish: aukea (fi), metsäaukea; aukio (fi)
• French: clairière (fr) f
• German: Lichtung (de) f, Rodung (de) f, Waldlichtung (de) f, Kahlschlagsfläche f
• Greek: ξέφωτο (el) n (xéfoto)
• Hungarian: tisztás (hu), irtás (hu), irtvány
• Italian: radura (it)

• Maori: waerenga
• Norman: clièrgeon m
• Old Norse: þveit
• Polish: poręba f
• Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
• Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána)
• Scottish Gaelic: glac f, blàran coille m
• Spanish: desmonte (es) m, claro (es) m
• Swedish: glänta (sv) c
• Tagalog: palanas, tahaw
• Ukrainian: поля́на f (poljána), галя́ва f (haljáva), галя́вина (uk) f (haljávyna)
• Welsh: llannerch f

open space in the fog etc

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空地 (zh) (kòngdì)

• Esperanto: maldensejo
• Finnish: aukko (fi)

• German: Nebellichtung f
• Italian: spiazzo (it) m
• Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána)

process of completing and settling transactions centrally

• Bulgarian: клиринг (bg) m (kliring)
• Finnish: clearing (fi), selvitys (fi)
• German: Clearing n, Geldausgleich m, Verrechnung (de) f, Zahlungsausgleich unter Banken m, Abrechnungsverkehr m

• Italian: compensazione (it) f
• Russian: кли́ринг (ru) m (klíring)

sequence of events used to disconnect a call

• Finnish: erottaminen (fi)
• German: Freischaltung (de) f

• Italian: resettaggio m, ripristino (it) m, azzeramento (it) m

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

• Catalan: rebuig (ca) m
• Spanish: despeje (es) m

• Swedish: rensning c

Anagrams

• clangier, relacing

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Finnish

Noun

clearing

1. (banking, finance) clearing

Declension

Inflection of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		clearing	clearingit
genitive		clearingin	clearingien
partitive		clearingiä	clearingejä
illative		clearingiin	clearingeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		clearing	clearingit
accusative	nom.	clearing	clearingit
	gen.	clearingin
genitive		clearingin	clearingien
partitive		clearingiä	clearingejä
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

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Spanish

Noun

clearing m (plural clearings)

1. (finance) clearing