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- [kleer-uh ns]
- /ˈklɪər əns/
- /ˈklɪə.rəns/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kleer-uh ns]
- /ˈklɪər əns/
Definitions of clearance word
- variable noun clearance Clearance is the removal of old buildings, trees, or other things that are not wanted from an area. 3
- variable noun clearance If you get clearance to do or have something, you get official approval or permission to do or have it. 3
- variable noun clearance The clearance of a bridge is the distance between the lowest point of the bridge and the road or the water under the bridge. 3
- noun clearance the process or an instance of clearing 3
- noun clearance (as modifier) 3
- noun clearance space between two parts in motion or in relative motion 3
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Origin of clearance
First appearance:
before 1555 One of the 31% oldest English words
First recorded in 1555-65; clear + -ance
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Clearance
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
clearance popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
clearance usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for clearance
noun clearance
- approval — If you win someone's approval for something that you ask for or suggest, they agree to it.
- go-ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
- consent — If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
Antonyms for clearance
noun clearance
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
- veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
- opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
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