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Clawback

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled. US, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way wordnet
  3. 3
    Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision. US, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine. US, countable, uncountable

    "The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets."

  5. 5
    A flatterer or sycophant. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Take hede of theſe claubackes, theſe venemous people that wil come to you, that will folowe like Gnatoes and Paraſites, if you folowe them, you are oute of your boke."

Etymology

Deverbal from claw back. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back", or reclaimed; in the sense of a flatterer, it suggests the idea of a person's back being scratched (see scratch someone's back).

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