clawback
A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly…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.
Meaning
4 senses(US, countable, uncountable)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)Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
(US, countable, uncountable)Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A flatterer or sycophant.
- finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
Origin
Deverbal from claw back. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back",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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Forms
plural: clawbacksSynonyms
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