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Clearance   /klˈɪrəns/   Listen
Clearance

noun
1.
The distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them.
2.
Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something.  Synonyms: headroom, headway.
3.
Permission to proceed.



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"Clearance" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoughtfully, when Captain Dell laid down his papers—'I wonder what Mr. Mannering will say to it? As you know, I got his express permission for you to make these enquiries. But he hates cutting down a single tree, and this will mean a wide clearance!' ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... neighborhood of this, for their advice and assistance. After a free conference and due consideration, they dispersed. The next day, being the 14th, inst. the people met again at the Old South church, and having ascertained the owner, they COMPELLED him to apply at the custom house for a clearance for his ship to London with the tea on board, and appointed ten gentlemen to see it performed; after which they adjourned till Thursday the 16th. The people then met, and Mr. Rotch informed them that he had ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams

... modest estimate of himself this time, for he soon had the cleats strongly fastened to the back of the panel, raising it two inches, which gave plenty of clearance for ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman

... this man, who has not renounced and will not renounce God, that still and ever he clamours for more knowledge of Him. Still getting no answer, he lifts up his hands and calls the great Oath of Clearance; in effect 'If I have loved gold overmuch, hated mine enemy, refused the stranger my tent, ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... to be the leaders of society. My fond recollection goes back to an evening in the early sixties when a father read to his boy the first three chapters of the Pickwick Papers from the green-coloured parts, and it is a bitter regret that in some clearance of books that precious Pickwick was allowed to go, as is supposed, with a lot of pamphlets on Church and State, to the great gain ...
— Books and Bookmen • Ian Maclaren


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