clearance

IPA: kɫˈɪrʌns

The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
(retail) A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise; sometimes as a closeout.
(banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
(medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
(soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
(chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
Clear or net profit.
(Australian rules football) The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
(Australian rules football) The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.

Examples of "clearance" in Sentences

It is certainly not a clearance.
Operations and station clearance.
A of vertical clearance for shipping.
Cimetidine reduces the metabolic clearance of pefloxacin.
They've been on a warehouse shelf, unlike theshopworn clearance items.
Ultraviolet clearance represents the highest level of security clearance.
In medicine, the clearance is a measurement of the renal excretion ability.
Much of the housing in the area was demolished as slum clearance in the 1950s.
A security clearance is, in general, granted to a particular level of clearance.
A vehicle hitch for use with a high clearance vehicle which provides a means by which trailers and the like may be hitched to the high clearance vehicle at either the clearance height of the high clearance vehicle or the clearance height of a conventional vehicle.