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clawback

The English word “clawback” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.
  2. Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
  3. Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
  4. A flatterer or sycophant.

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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