2syllables
clawback
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Definitions ofclawback
1noun
- 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.
- Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
- Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
Example: "The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets."
- A flatterer or sycophant.
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