Usually means: Permissions for accessing restricted areas.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word clearances:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. clearances: Merriam-Webster
  2. Clearances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clearances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clearances, clearances: Wordnik
  5. clearances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clearances: Wiktionary
  7. clearances: Dictionary.com
  8. Clearances, The Clearances: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. clearances: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clearances: Legal dictionary
  2. clearances: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clearances: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clearances: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. clearances: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clearance)

noun:  The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
noun:  The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
noun:  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.
noun:  A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
noun:  A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
noun:  A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
noun:  (retail) A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise; sometimes as a closeout.
noun:  (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
noun:  (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
noun:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
noun:  (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
noun:  (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
noun:  Clear or net profit.
noun:  (Australian rules football) The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
noun:  (Australian rules football) The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.
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