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clearing house

clearing house noun: a central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.

Noun

clearing house (plural clearing houses)

  1. A central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.
    • The Railway Clearing House, which was established 120 years ago, was disbanded on March 31. [see "Further reading" for the Wikipedia article.]1963 May, “News and Comment: End of the Railway Clearing House”, in Modern Railways, page 291
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A hub of collection, maintenance, and distribution of goods, information etc.
    • The mixed load is likely to have come from Rotterdam, one of Europe's key clearing houses for drugs2011, Samuel West (narrator), Smugglers TV series (ep. 2)
  3. A repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data

clearing house meaning in Tamil

clearing house in Tamil

காசோலைத் தீர்வகம், தீர்வகம்

Forms of clearing house

pluralclearing houses

Words formed from clearing house

Questions about clearing house

What does clearing house mean?
Clearing house means a central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.
What is clearing house in Tamil?
Clearing house in Tamil is காசோலைத் தீர்வகம், தீர்வகம். See Clearing house meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clearing house?
Clearing house is a noun.
What is the plural of clearing house?
The plural of clearing house is clearing houses.

Words near clearing house in the dictionary

  1. clearing agent
  2. clearing agents
  3. clearing away
  4. clearing bank
  5. clearing banks
  6. clearing house
  7. clearing houses
  8. clearing nut
  9. clearing nuts
  10. clearing off
  11. clearing one's lines

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