Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CLEARING HOUSE
  
  (1) an agency operated by financial organizations to exchange and pay checks drawn on each other. (2) an organization connected with a commodity exchange through which all futures contracts are reconciled, settled, guaranteed, and later either offset or fulfilled through delivery of the commodity, and through which financial settlements are made.
  
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