get clearance
Frequency: 8.222.5 per million words
to receive official permission for something
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Examples (10)
- You'll need to get security clearance for this job.
- The athlete had to get medical clearance before returning to the game.
- Before we can start building, we must get clearance from the city council.
- She finally got clearance to access the classified documents.
- The film crew will have to get clearance to shoot in the national park.
- The pilot is waiting to get clearance for takeoff from the control tower.
- If you don't get customs clearance, your goods will be impounded.
- After a long negotiation, the company managed to get environmental clearance for their new factory.
- Getting clearance for such a sensitive project can take months.
- We were unable to get clearance to visit the restricted area.