clearing housen.

An institution in London established by the bankers for the adjustment of their mutual claims for cheques and bills, by exchanging them and settling the balances (often with capital initials). Extended to imitations of this in other places, and to institutions of a similar nature, as the railway clearing house, an office in which the mutual claims of the different railways for through tickets and freights, etc. are settled. Hence also frequently used figuratively.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > clearing house

clearing house1832

society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > place for

clearing house1881

acquirer1982

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xiv. 124 In London this is avoided, by making all checks paid in to bankers pass through what is technically called ‘The Clearing House’.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. xi. 48 The clearing house to which every City banker sends each afternoon all the checques on other bankers which he has received during the day.

1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clearing House, an establishment recently organized in the city of New York.

1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) xiv. 141 The London Clearing-House is enabled to trace the course of all waggons and passenger-carriages.

1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 37 Indirect and intermediate settlements, in which London appears as the clearing-house of the world.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 37 The Clearing-house..was established by the principal bankers in London in the year 1775.

1881 H. H. Gibbs Double Standard 39 France acting as a clearing-house between England and India.

1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 634/2 The Charity Organization Society is a central exchange or clearing-house for all the single relief associations.

1903 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 6/7 What is wanted is first a human clearing house, or, in other words, compulsory examination of all immigrants.

1904 J. Chamberlain Speeches 19 Jan. (Oxf. Dict. Quots., ed. 2) Provided that the City of London remains as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 2/1 Washington is in one sense the clearing-house for the humanity of the entire continent.

1943 J. S. Huxley TVA xvi. 131 The new Council has, among other things, become a clearing-house for regional research.

1961 Oxf. Mag. 26 Jan. 163/1 The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is now proposing to set up a central clearing-house which will handle all applications and produce a provisional answer from the candidate's universities of first and second choice by the end of March.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

ΚΠ

1878 M. Marble in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 163 Our bank-notes, checks, drafts, book-accounts, and clearing-house machinery.

C2.

clearing-banker n. a banker who has admission to the Clearing House.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > types of banker

merchant banker1652

private banker1711

actuary1816

corporate banker1841

investment banker1880

clearer1883

clearing-banker1885

bankster1931

1885 Whitaker's Almanack 221 Every Bank in London and the Country is represented by Clearing Bankers, who, as agents, send through the Clearing House all drafts payable in the City and in the Country.

clearing-house certificate n. U.S. a certificate of deposit issued by a clearing-house, negotiable only between banks belonging to the clearing-house association.

ΚΠ

1864 Statutes at Large (U.S.) XIII. 109 Clearing-house certificates, representing specie or lawful money specially deposited for the purpose of any clearing house association, shall be deemed to be lawful money.

1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ii. 63 The New York banks were driven to issue ‘Clearing House certificates’, which were, in fact, banknotes, although the law had to pretend that they were not.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	clearing house
释义	clearing housen. An institution in London established by the bankers for the adjustment of their mutual claims for cheques and bills, by exchanging them and settling the balances (often with capital initials). Extended to imitations of this in other places, and to institutions of a similar nature, as the railway clearing house, an office in which the mutual claims of the different railways for through tickets and freights, etc. are settled. Hence also frequently used figuratively. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > clearing house clearing house1832 society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > place for clearing house1881 acquirer1982 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xiv. 124 In London this is avoided, by making all checks paid in to bankers pass through what is technically called ‘The Clearing House’. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. xi. 48 The clearing house to which every City banker sends each afternoon all the checques on other bankers which he has received during the day. 1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clearing House, an establishment recently organized in the city of New York. 1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) xiv. 141 The London Clearing-House is enabled to trace the course of all waggons and passenger-carriages. 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 37 Indirect and intermediate settlements, in which London appears as the clearing-house of the world. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 37 The Clearing-house..was established by the principal bankers in London in the year 1775. 1881 H. H. Gibbs Double Standard 39 France acting as a clearing-house between England and India. 1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 634/2 The Charity Organization Society is a central exchange or clearing-house for all the single relief associations. 1903 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 6/7 What is wanted is first a human clearing house, or, in other words, compulsory examination of all immigrants. 1904 J. Chamberlain Speeches 19 Jan. (Oxf. Dict. Quots., ed. 2) Provided that the City of London remains as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 2/1 Washington is in one sense the clearing-house for the humanity of the entire continent. 1943 J. S. Huxley TVA xvi. 131 The new Council has, among other things, become a clearing-house for regional research. 1961 Oxf. Mag. 26 Jan. 163/1 The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is now proposing to set up a central clearing-house which will handle all applications and produce a provisional answer from the candidate's universities of first and second choice by the end of March. Compounds C1. attributive. ΚΠ 1878 M. Marble in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 163 Our bank-notes, checks, drafts, book-accounts, and clearing-house machinery. C2. clearing-banker n. a banker who has admission to the Clearing House. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > types of banker merchant banker1652 private banker1711 actuary1816 corporate banker1841 investment banker1880 clearer1883 clearing-banker1885 bankster1931 1885 Whitaker's Almanack 221 Every Bank in London and the Country is represented by Clearing Bankers, who, as agents, send through the Clearing House all drafts payable in the City and in the Country. clearing-house certificate n. U.S. a certificate of deposit issued by a clearing-house, negotiable only between banks belonging to the clearing-house association. ΚΠ 1864 Statutes at Large (U.S.) XIII. 109 Clearing-house certificates, representing specie or lawful money specially deposited for the purpose of any clearing house association, shall be deemed to be lawful money. 1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ii. 63 The New York banks were driven to issue ‘Clearing House certificates’, which were, in fact, banknotes, although the law had to pretend that they were not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1832
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