Clearance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLEARANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of clearing
• the action or process of clearing or of being dispersed
• the removal of buildings, people, or trees from land so as to free it for alternative uses
• the removal of contents from a house
• the potting of all the balls remaining on the table in a single break
• official authorization for something to proceed or take place
• official permission for someone to have access to classified information
• permission for an aircraft to take off or land at an airport
• the clearing of a person or ship by customs
• a certificate showing that customs clearance has been granted.
• the process of clearing cheques through a clearing house.
• clear space allowed for a thing to move past or under another
• The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
• A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
• Clear or net profit.
• The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
• the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them
• vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
• permission to proceed
• clearing
• (in soccer and other sports) a kick or hit that sends the ball away from one's goal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or process of clearing; as the removal of buildings from an area (as a city slum); the act of clearing a ship at the customhouse; the papers showing that a ship has cleared; the offsetting of checks and other claims among banks through a clearinghouse; certification as clear of objection; authorization; a sale to clear out stock; authorization for an aircraft to proceed especially with a specified action

Words related to CLEARANCE

clearage11 clearances14 clearing11

Words that contain CLEARANCE

clearances14 preclearance18 preclearances19

How to use CLEARANCE in a sentence

• The boat lost one tide, and consequently one day, because at the last moment the captain found himself obliged to take out a South Carolina clearance.
• A long stroke involving expensive construction is usually justified by the claim that a large saving is effected by reduced clearance loss.
• Clearance space is in some cases destroyed altogether by what is, as it were, an elastic air head which is brought into direct contact with the piston.
• Captain Spark was below in his cabin, making out the final papers and waiting for his clearance documents from the harbor master.
• Just then Captain Spark, having received his clearance papers by messenger, gave orders to cast off.
• He read the clearance and manifest with great attention.
• As everything was regular about the register, manifest and clearance, I could see that Monsieur Gallois was not in a particularly good humour.
• By this clearance, time was saved to such an extent that punctuality became possible, and the refusal of food almost ceased.
• No report on a corporate situation, however much it may be considered in the public interest, shall be sent to the press without prior clearance from the editor.
• This is curious, as all previous evidence has pointed to the clearance of ice sheets north of Cape Royds early in the spring.
• A vessel having put in from Halifax, a rumor spread that the captain had brought stamped paper with him, and was going to use it for his Philadelphia clearance.
• It was a custom for the small vessels engaged in that trade to take out clearance papers for the West Indies.
• There remained in front of the door, when this clearance had been effected, the Yule log itself, the laborers who had drawn it along and a group of manageable size.
• In fact, when we had made some sort of clearance among them we found in that fearful hold eleven dead bodies lying among the living freight.
• If this procedure does not make a clearance, recourse must be had to trapping.
• Sometimes the first mate of the home is compelled to make a clearance, when the pets become numerous and the youngsters bathe too frequent.
• Outside these reserves enormous tracts of forest and jungle still remain for clearance and cultivation, reservation being mostly confined to forest land unsuitable for crops.
• A small clearance space, FC, must be made to allow the teeth of the saw to pass.
• Continue this operation until the grease is forced between all the bearings and out through the small clearance on the opposite side of the wheels.
• They made a clearance, and all that was left was prudently invested in the three per cents at seventy-five.
• We felt confident there would be a clearance soon, so but shrouded our navigation lights.
• He got his money and his clearance, and made a well-chosen and impressive little speech on the wisdom of honest dealing.
• The islands shone mellow and bright in the clearance with the storm going off black behind them.
• We hurried in the direction of the sound and came out on a small clearance with a shanty in the middle.
• I took the compass and found their clearance without trouble.
• Each Monday found Archie more handy with the ax, and neither heat nor mosquitoes caused him to slacken in extending his clearance.
• Then he tackled enlarging his clearance and his daily task was again felling trees.
• The number who flocked into his clearance astonished him, for almost every acquaintance he had saluted him.
• With so many hands the small clearance was, late in the afternoon, put in such a shape that Archie and two men who remained could do the rest.
• The winter sped quickly and the middle of March saw brother and sister back to their clearance and to the felling of trees.
• A loud shout brought Archie from the end of the clearance where he was at work with the ax.

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