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clearing house (pluralclearing houses)

Acentralpoint whereclearing banks and other financial firmsexchangechecks,settleaccounts, etc.
- 1963 May, “News and Comment: End of the RailwayClearing House”, inModern Railways, page291:
  The RailwayClearing House, which was established 120 years ago, was disbanded on March 31. [see "Further reading" for the Wikipedia article.]
(figuratively, by extension) Ahub of collection, maintenance, and distribution ofgoods, information etc.
- 2011, Samuel West (narrator),Smugglers TV series (ep. 2), :
  The mixed load is likely to have come from Rotterdam, one of Europe's keyclearing houses for drugs
(GIS) Arepository structure,physical orvirtual, thatcollects,stores, anddisseminates information,metadata, anddata

a central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts

a repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data