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Meaning of 'clearance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Clearance [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'clearance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . clearance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- permission to proceed
Example in sentence:
  • the plane was given clearance to land

Nearby Words:

cleading clean clean-cut clean-limbed clean-timbered cleaned cleaner cleaning cleanlily cleanliness

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