clearing-house love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An office where banks exchange checks and drafts and settle accounts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place or institution where the settlement of mutual claims, especially of banks, is effected by the payment of differences called balances.

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