CLEARANCE Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

clearance

noun

ˈklir-ən(t)s

Definition of clearance

as in permission

the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something we'll need official clearance before publishing this editorial

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Recent Examples of clearance When lymphatic clearance slows, so does the system responsible for filtering metabolic waste from neural tissue. — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026 The traditional image of goalkeepers launching long clearances has disappeared, replaced by players who initiate attacks from the back. — Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 About four minutes into the match, Manu Koné—curiously alone at the top of Norway’s box—trapped a clearance attempt and rifled a shot on goal, which Norway’s keeper, Egil Selvik, diving, punched away. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 27 June 2026 The Japanese defense was in chaos minutes later as a header from Casemiro hit Japanese defender Takehiro Tomiyasu in the face on the goal line, bouncing back to Suzuki and into another goal-line clearance. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for clearance

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Noun

He was granted permission to travel to New York for the event.

— Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
What the Council's change adds is not access to green finance but permission to badge the whole enterprise, oil growth included, as transition.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of permission

Noun

Proponents of the authorization note that the $155 million investment arrives four years after a severe drought in the Sacramento Valley in 2022 had cost local communities hundreds of millions of dollars and roughly 1,500 jobs.

— Lyanne Wang, CBS News, 2 July 2026
For example, California’s prior authorization reform bill, SB 1120, passed in 2024 unanimously.

— Miranda Yaver, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

Definition of authorization

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That describes cases in which a broker enrolled a consumer in an ACA plan without their consent.

— Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Earlier this month, the court struck down a Hawaii law that prohibits the carry of a firearm onto private property that is open to the public unless the property owner gives express consent.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 30 June 2026

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