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Definitions of clearances in various dictionaries:
noun - the distance by which one thing clears another
noun - vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
noun - permission to proceed
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Access-granting actions |
| The eviction of tenants from large Scottish estates in the early 19th century |
| They permit evictions |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Oct 15 2017 The Times - Specialist |
| Jun 12 2015 The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Oct 11 2003 The Times - Cryptic |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| Plural form of clearance. |
| the action or process of clearing or of being dispersed. |
| The action or process of clearing or of being dispersed. |
| Official authorization for something to proceed or take place. |
| Clear space allowed for a thing to move past or under another. |
| Clearances description |
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| The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal [futiçn n g.l], the "eviction of the Gaels") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands mostly during the 18th and 19th centuries. They resulted from enclosures of common lands and a change from farming to sheep rearing, largely carried out by hereditary aristocratic landowners who previously had status as Scots Gaelic clan chiefs. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years. A Highland Clearance has been defined as "an enforced simultaneous eviction of all families living in a given area, such as an entire glen".The Clearances relied on the insecurity of tenure of most tenants under the Scottish legal system. There was no equivalent of the English system of copyhold, which provided a heritable tenancy for many English counterparts of the Scots who were cleared from their farms. The cumulative effect of the Clearances and the large-scale em |