noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clearing bank (= one of the banks in Britain that uses a clearing house when dealing with other banks )
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large commercial customers of the clearing banks
clearing bank
clearing house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing .
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To arrive at this moment, Packard spent the early 1980s locating small , flowery clearings in the thickets of Illinois woods.
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They had not gone far, when they had stepped into a small clearing .
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Logging roads go off to both sides, and there are many small recent clearings .
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We made our camp in a small clearing by the top of the falls.
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Then, after quite a while, we came to a small clearing .
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It circled the small clearing warily, catching the light and jerking as it did so, moving quickly into shadow.
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Dusk was beginning to touch the forest and deep shadows lay across the small clearing where they sat down.
■ NOUN
bank
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The clearing banks used to change their interest rates on advances and deposits automatically by the same amount that Bank rate changed.
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Open market operations are made via the discount houses, but can also be conducted directly with the major clearing banks .
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There is nothing to stop you doing most of your business with your main clearing bank if the rates are competitive.
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We believe we have more experience in helping franchisees and franchisors than any other clearing bank .
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From the 1930s, the clearing banks directly linked their interest rates to Bank Rate.
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These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.
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According to analysts at Lehman Brothers, the nine main clearing banks combined have averaged annual ROEs of less than 7% since 1988.
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The clearing banks were ideally placed.
house
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The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
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Out-of-hours trading is permitted by the clearing house and can account for up to a third of on-exchange trading.
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Overburdened by commitments elsewhere, Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives.
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Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.
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Instead, both buyer and seller pay an initial margin, and these payments are held by the clearing house .
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The clearing house then matches long and short positions and assigns a short to make delivery to a long.
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The Exchange intends that the new clearing house will be jointly owned.
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The clearing house is also protected from excessive credit risk through the operation of a system of daily price limits.
market
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What would happen if the real rate w 1, a value in excess of the market clearing real wage, w *;?
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Suppose that the union lifts the level of wages above the perfectly competitive market clearing wage, thus creating some unemployment.
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The market clearing paradigm is reasonably robust and the Rational Expectations assumption is here most plausible.
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But there is a second justification for the market clearing approach.
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There is nothing in the criteria which it stipulates for rational behaviour that confines its application to a market clearing framework.
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The full employment aggregate supply function is that unique function corresponding to the market clearing real wage rate, w *;.
member
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There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member.
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The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
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Provision is also made for the amendment of the regulations themselves by notice to exchanges and clearing members .
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Such a charge is not registrable against the clearing member under s 395 of the Companies Act 1985.
system
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It is fundamental to an effective and reliable clearing system .
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The clearing system , being nationwide and increasingly computerized, makes for a very efficient system of transmitting payments.
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As credits pass through the clearing system , they are collected in a specially designated account and transferred to magnetic tape.
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They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A small deer stood on the edge of the clearing .
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In the clearing , there was a small cottage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first their station buildings were primitive affairs, no more than clearings in the bush with tin huts.
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But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling.
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From the edge of one of these clearings Chloe suddenly flushed a sepoy.
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Logging roads go off to both sides, and there are many small recent clearings.
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She managed to contact him in Florida, as the clearing up got under way.
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The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof in the middle of a clearing .
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While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance, the wall had extended several metres across the clearing .