clearing house
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See also: clearinghouse
English
Noun
clearing house (plural clearing houses)
- A central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.
- 1963 May, “News and Comment: End of the Railway Clearing House”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
- The Railway Clearing House, which was established 120 years ago, was disbanded on March 31. [see "Further reading" for the Wikipedia article.]
- (figuratively, by extension) A hub of collection, maintenance, and distribution of goods, information etc.
- 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
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Translations
a central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts
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a repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data
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References
- Wade, T. and Sommer, S. eds. A to Z GIS
Further reading
Railway Clearing House on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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