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clearing house

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Banking
ˈclearing house noun [countable]  1. BFBa central office where banks exchange cheques and other financial documents 票据交换所,结算中心,清算所2. an office that receives and gives out or sells information or goods for several other organizations 〔信息或货物的〕交换所,交流中心
Examples from the Corpus
clearing houseOverburdened by commitments elsewhere, Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives.Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.Thus, it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right.How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.Because the clearing house is the counterparty to every transaction, it is also involved in the delivery process.The short informs the clearing house of these arrangements.Every day the two banks take the bundles of each other's cheques along to the clearing house and exchange them.The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
From Longman Business Dictionaryclearing houseˈclearing ˌhouseBANKINGORGANIZATIONS an organization that makes payments between banks and other financial institutions that trade regularly with each otherBanks’ and brokers’ back offices are linked to a central clearing house in a single computer network. house
ˈclearing house nounChineseSyllable
central a and banks where cheques Business office exchange Corpus


clearing house
ˈclearing house noun [countable]
1. a central office where banks exchange cheques and other financial documents
2. an office that receives and gives out or sells information or goods for several other organizations


clearing houseBrE /ˈklɪərɪŋ haʊs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈklɪrɪŋ haʊs/ 🔊 nouna central office that banks use in order to pay each other money and exchange cheques, etc. (银行)票据交换所,清算中心,结算所an organization that collects and exchanges information on behalf of people or other organizations 信息交换机构;信息交流所