English

Noun

clearing house ‎(plural clearing houses)

1. A central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts
2. (figuratively, by extension) A hub of goods traffic
   • 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

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

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See also

• GIS

References

• Wade, T. and Sommer, S. eds. A to Z GIS