EGAVE

clawback

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A flatterer or sycophant.

Similar words

repossession reclaimed salvaging reclamation payback recovery recover recapture retrieving retrieval

Often followed by

of provisions provision clauses is clause agreements was and

Word family

clawbacks

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