clearing

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of clear

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of making or becoming clear.
2. (countable, uncountable) An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
3. (countable, uncountable) An open space in the fog etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
5. (countable, uncountable) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
6. (British, countable, uncountable) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
7. (countable, uncountable) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

clear

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Synonyms

glade

clearance

open place

clarification

exchange

liquidation

cleaning

offsetting

open country

opening

open space

field

elucidation

water opening

purifying

dying out

elimination

erasure

excavating

exculpation

felling

garden

hollow

hurdling

incision

interchange

jumping over

meadow

melting away

opening-up

paying off

preparing

purge

purification

reciprocity

reclamation

refinement

removing

replacement

settlement

space

substitution

switching

uprooting

washing

square accounts

open land

cleared space

check clearing

making pellucid

Translations

clairière

Lichtung

radura

claro

aclaramiento

spiazzo

clareira

Rodung

spurgo

clarification

ξέφωτο

εκτελώνιση

Wake

ξεκαθάρισμα

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From clear + -ing.