Clearance vs Eliminate - What's the difference?
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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.
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.
(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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As a noun clearance
is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.As a verb eliminate is
to completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
. clearance
English
Noun
- 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
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eliminate
English
Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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