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clearinghouse

clearinghouse is the alternative form 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

Forms of clearinghouse

pluralclearinghouses

Questions about clearinghouse

What is clearinghouse the alternative form of?
Clearinghouse is the alternative form of clearing house.

Words near clearinghouse in the dictionary

  1. clearing the decks
  2. clearing the market
  3. clearing the neighborhood
  4. clearing the table
  5. clearing up
  6. clearinghouse
  7. clearinghouses
  8. clearings
  9. clearish
  10. Clearlake
  11. Clearlake Oaks

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