Synonyms for clearance
ˈklɪər ənsclear·ance

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1. clearancenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   headway, headroom

2. headroom, headway, clearancenoun

   vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

   Synonyms:
   head, headroom, dynamic headroom, headway

3. clearancenoun

   permission to proceed

   "the plane was given clearance to land"

   Synonyms:
   headway, headroom

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1. • Permission
   • Room
   • Separation

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1. clearancenoun

   Synonyms:
   discharge, release, exoneration, acquittal

2. clearancenoun

   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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How to use clearance in a sentence?

1. Senator Warner:

   Large scale government IT efforts do not have great track records, i look forward to working with the executive branch and our industry partners on modernizing the clearance system. But it will not be easy or fast.

2. California Resources Corp CRC.N.:

   The oil fields have good fire clearance, so that works to their favor.

3. New York:

   There are only a few excerpted portions that we have to see, i know what's in them from the newspapers but, to make sure, they're getting me a security clearance.

4. Kris Goldsmith:

   Teixeira is a great example of how the department of defense has failed to figure out how to root out extremists, the fact that he was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun, kind of boggles the mind and it makes me wonder what other kind of problems there are with the clearance system.

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.