clearinghouse

American  

[kleer-ing-haus] / ˈklɪər ɪŋˌhaʊs /

Or clearing house

noun

• clearinghouses
  plural

1. a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.

2. a central institution or agency for the collection, maintenance, and distribution of materials, information, etc.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• clearinghouses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of clearinghouse

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

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The states built a kind of clearinghouse to determine standard formulas such as how much capital an insurer must hold against every asset on its books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Widow’s Bay” is this season’s sleeper hit because the show is a horror trope clearinghouse.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Among the letter recipients are major financial institutions including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and American Express; payment platforms such as PayPal; and the biggest U.S. airlines and the clearinghouse that processes ticketing data across the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The clearinghouse, NIL Go, was created with the hope of eliminating an influx of booster-funded NIL deals that were basically direct payments from donors to the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

The Line Superintendent said that he would be able to get in touch with the crews in the morning; he suggested the rural telephone supervisor, who was a clearinghouse of information for miles around...

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

The company, which additionally owns other bourses and clearinghouses, posted a third-quarter profit of $940 million, or $1.67 a share, compared with $816 million, or $1.42 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The clearinghouses hold the collateral on each side of a contract, transferring risk from trading parties to the clearinghouse itself.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

In the world of traditional brokerages, buying or selling equities has meant interacting with layers of intermediaries: brokers; custodians, clearinghouses.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

But smaller clearinghouses rely on commercial banks, where deposit insurance covers only up to $250,000.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

Thus, clearinghouses and other collectives comprise one option that has succeeded in providing for use of a work.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

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