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clearing houses

clearing houses is the plural of clearing house.

Meaning of clearing house

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

Questions about clearing houses

What is clearing houses the plural of?
Clearing houses is the plural of clearing house.

Words near clearing houses in the dictionary

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

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