clearing house

See also: clearinghouse

English

Noun

clearing house (plural clearing houses)

1. 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.]

2. (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

3. (GIS) A repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data

Derived terms

• automated clearing house

Related terms

• inclearing
• outclearing

Translations

a central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts

• French: chambre de compensation (fr) f
• Georgian: საანგარიშო პალატა (saangarišo ṗalaṭa), ანგარიშსწორების პალატა (angarišsc̣orebis ṗalaṭa), კლირინგული პალატა (ḳliringuli ṗalaṭa) (colloquial), კლირინგის პალატა (ḳliringis ṗalaṭa) (colloquial)
• German: Verrechnungsstelle f, Abrechnungsstelle (de) f, Giroausgleichsstelle m, Clearing-Stelle f
• Greek: γραφείο συμψηφισμού n (grafeío sympsifismoú)
• Italian: stanza di compensazione
• Spanish: cámara de compensación f

a repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data

• Spanish: centro de intercambio m

References

• Wade, T. and Sommer, S. eds. A to Z GIS

Further reading

• Railway Clearing House on Wikipedia.Wikipedia