clearing house

See also: clearinghouse

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clearing house

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

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

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