Synonyms for clearance
ˈklɪər əns

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1. clearance(noun)

   the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them

   Synonyms:
   headway, headroom

2. headroom, headway, clearance(noun)

   vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

   Synonyms:
   head, headroom, dynamic headroom, headway

3. clearance(noun)

   permission to proceed

   "the plane was given clearance to land"

   Synonyms:
   headway, headroom

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1. clearance(n.)

   Synonyms:
   discharge, release, exoneration, acquittal

2. clearance(n.)

   Synonyms:
   (Com.) permission to leave port, permission to sail

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1. List of paraphrases for "clearance":

   demining, removal, authorization, clearing, lei, cleaning, liquidation, mine-clearance, de-mining, cleansing, authorisation, mine-clearing, slack, lui, postage, demolition, empowerment, clean-up, mine, abduction, cleanup, approval, removing, discharge, permission, winding-up, elimination, clearances, release

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1. Richard Painter:

   It is very important for the White House to acknowledge she is an employee and not play games, they have given her an office. I’m assuming they will give her the devices — which she needs, because the last thing we need is to be playing ‘Hillary games’ on a private server. She’s going to get security clearance -- she is a government employee.

2. Chief Executive Stéphane Boujnah:

   Euronext welcomes the ministry's clearance to acquire up to 100% of Oslo Børs VPS's capital and looks forward to completing the next steps to close the transaction by the end of June.

3. Uzma Samadani:

   Once we get FDA clearance -- I would hope within a year -- it will be obvious something will have to be used, because eye tracking is objective, and it is impossible to fake that your eye movements are coordinated when they are not, the NFL could potentially eliminate any human-error component to concussion diagnosis.

4. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki:

   For issues related to Department personnel and for privacy reasons, we are not able to confirm the identity of the individual or specific charges, his security clearance will be suspended, and he will be put on administrative leave while this proceeds to its end through any judicial process.

5. Pat Cipollone:

   The Committee has failed to point to any authority establishing a legitimate legislative purpose for the Committee's unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands : including the demand to examine the entire investigative files of numerous individuals whom the President has chosen as his senior advisors, as I have explained in multiple previous letters, it is clearly established as a matter of law that the decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch.

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