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Authorization vs Clearance - What's the difference?

authorization | clearance |

As nouns the difference between authorization and clearance

is that authorization is permission while clearance is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.

authorization

English

Alternative forms

* authorisation

Noun

(wikipedia authorization)
  • (uncountable) Permission.
    • I've ''got'' authorization . Call the office and you'll see.
  • (countable) An act of authorizing.
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  • (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
    • Can I see your authorization ?
  • (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
    • We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.

    Holonyms

    * (permission) access control * (an act of authorizing) access control * (government) budgeting

    Related terms

    * author * authority * unauthorized

    References

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    clearance

    English

    Noun

  • The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
  • The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
  • The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
  • A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
    • The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
    He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists
  • A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
  • A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
  • (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
  • (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
  • (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
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  • (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
  • Clear or net profit.
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