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Clearing or The Clearing may refer to:

Arts and media

• Clearing (Fred Frith album), 2001
• Clearing (Hyd album), 2022
• The Clearing (film), a 2004 drama film
• The Clearing (EP), a 2006 EP by Weatherbox
• The Clearing (Sleep for Sleepers album), 2009
• The Clearing (Locrian album), 2011
• The Clearing (Homeland), an episode of the American television series Homeland
• The Clearing (podcast), a 2019 true crime podcast
• The Clearing (TV series), 2023

Ecology

• Clearing (forest), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
• Clearing (geography), the process by which vegetation is permanently removed
• Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland

Economics and finance

• Clearing (finance), the process of settling a transaction after committing to it
• Market clearing, the matching of supply and demand via price movement

Other uses

• Clearing, Chicago, a community area in Illinois, U.S.
• The Clearing (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), also known as The Clearing Folk School
• Clearing (telecommunications), the disconnecting of a call
• Yarn clearing, in textile industry
• Clearing, a practice in Scientology
• Clearing, a process used by the UK's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)

See also

• Clear (disambiguation)
• Clearance (disambiguation)