[ US /ˈkɫɪɹəns/ ]
[ UK /klˈi‍əɹəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
  2. permission to proceed
    the plane was given clearance to land
  3. the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them
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How To Use clearance In A Sentence

  • In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
  • Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
  • The most obvious of these powers is that of the demolition and clearance of housing that is deemed unfit for human habitation. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
  • Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
  • High vehicles must take an alternative route because of low clearance under the bridge.
  • These parameters are influenced by the plasma clearance, volume of distribution and bioavailability of the drug.
  • The house clearance, which will be filmed for the television show, will be held between 1.30 pm and 5pm.
  • At another, it looked like a house clearance had been done.
  • Figure 3 shows the relation between acid clearance time after acid perfusion and overnight exposure to acid.
  • If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed? Danger Able Danger (re-edited)
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