clearing house
Noun
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Noun
clearing house (plural clearing houses)
- A central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts
- (figuratively, by extension) A hub of goods traffic
- 2011, Samuel West (narrator), Smugglers TV series (ep. 2), :
- The mixed load is likely to have come from Rotterdam, one of Europe's key clearing houses for drugs
- 2011, Samuel West (narrator), Smugglers TV series (ep. 2), :
- (GIS) A repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data
- French: chambre de compensation
- German: Verrechnungsstelle, Abrechnungsstelle, Giroausgleichsstelle, Clearing-Stelle
- Italian: stanza di compensazione
- Spanish: cámara de compensación
- Spanish: centro de intercambio
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