Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of removing anything; clearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of removing anything; clearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The act of
clearing orremoving ;clearance
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Examples
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A more and more apparentt clearage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
July 2nd, 2007 2007
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He totted up £70.50 for drain clearage in July of last year.
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He totted up £70.50 for drain clearage in July of last year.
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Nay, the owner himself will abandon his new grubbed clearage so soon as, by his cultivation, he has rendered it commodious for a less enterprising husbandman; once more he presses into the wilderness; again makes space for himself in the forests; in recompense of that first toiling a double and treble space; on which also, it may be, he thinks not to continue. "
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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