clear with

1. Obtain approval or permission. For example, Before you proceed, you'll have to clear it with the main office. [Mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

Crawford was clear with them that he had a single goal that he wanted them to pursue; namely, to secure an acquittal.

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"So again we're not really clear with this new announced service exactly where it sits."

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It is not the first time Northern Ireland's young players had matched Germany after a battling 60 minutes in Cologne before the hosts pulled clear with a quickfire double.

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“We’ve been clear with our customers and employees that there’s zero tolerance for politically motivated violence or any attempt to justify it,” United said.

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“I’m very clear with them that we need to do rigorous reproducible randomized controlled trials at the proper scale to really understand, does this drug work and in whom?” she says.

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