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English
Etymology
From clear + -ing.
Pronunciation
Verb
clearing
- present participle and gerund of clear
Noun
clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)
- The act or process of making or becoming clear.
- 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.
- An open space in the fog etc.
- (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
- (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- (British, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
- (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
- Synonym: clearance
Synonyms
- (area devoid of trees): glade
Derived terms
Translations
act or process of making or becoming clear
area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees
- Armenian: բացատ (hy) (bacʿat)
- Bashkir: аҡлан (aqlan)
- Basque: argiune
- Belarusian: прага́ліна f (prahálina), прага́л m (prahál), паля́на f (paljána)
- Bulgarian: сечище n (sečište), просека f (proseka)
- Catalan: clariana f
- Czech: mýtina (cs) f, paseka (cs) f
- Danish: lysning (da) c
- Dutch: loo (nl) n, tra (nl) f, laar (nl) n
- Esperanto: maldensejo, senarbejo
- Estonian: lagendik, raiesmik
- Finnish: aukea (fi), metsäaukea; aukio (fi)
- French: clairière (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Lichtung (de) f, Rodung (de) f, Waldlichtung (de) f, Kahlschlagsfläche f
- Greek: ξέφωτο (el) n (xéfoto)
- Hungarian: tisztás (hu), irtás (hu), irtvány (hu)
- Icelandic: rjóður (is)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: réiteach m
- Italian: radura (it)
- Latvian: izcirtums
- Livonian: lagdõ, mõtsālagdõ
- Macedonian: чистина (čistina)
- Maori: waerenga
- Norman: clièrgeon m
- Old English: lēah m
- Old Norse: þveit
- Polish: poręba (pl) f, karczowisko (pl) n, karczunek (pl) m
- Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
- Romansch: cleragl m
- Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána)
- Scottish Gaelic: glac f, blàran coille m
- Slovak: žiabre pl
- Slovene: čistina f, jasa (sl) f
- South Efate: m̃alm̃al
- Spanish: desmonte (es) m, claro (es) m
- Swedish: glänta (sv) c
- Tagalog: palanas, tahaw
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: поля́на f (poljána), галя́ва f (haljáva), галя́вина (uk) f (haljávyna)
- Welsh: llannerch f
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open space in the fog etc
process of completing and settling transactions centrally
sequence of events used to disconnect a call
soccer: act of removing the ball from one's own goal area
— see clearance
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From English clearing.
Pronunciation
Noun
clearing
- (banking, finance) clearing
- Synonym: selvitys
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English clearing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkli.riŋk/
- Rhymes: -iriŋk
- Syllabification: clea‧ring
Noun
clearing m inan
- (banking, finance) Alternative spelling of kliring
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English clearing.
Noun
clearing n (uncountable)
- (banking, finance) clearing
Declension
declension of clearing (singular only)
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singular
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n gender
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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nominative/accusative
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(un) clearing
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clearingul
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genitive/dative
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(unui) clearing
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clearingului
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vocative
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clearingule
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Spanish
Noun
clearing m (plural clearings)
- (finance) clearing