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clearing house noun

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Definition

a central office used by banks to collect and send out money and cheques
a central organization which collects and sends out information for other people or organizations

(Definition of clearing house noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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