Vetting vs Clearance - What's the difference?
vetting | clearance |
A checking or investigation.
* 2003 , Jean-Paul Brodeur, ?Peter Gill, ?Dennis Töllborg, Democracy, Law, and Security
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(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.
As nouns the difference between vetting and clearance
is that vetting is a checking or investigation while clearance is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.As a verb vetting
is .vetting
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The Military Intelligence Service in 1997 carried out nearly 18,000 security vettings , which resulted in 43 applicants being turned down because of a criminal record.
clearance
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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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- (Trollope)