clawback.
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 & usage
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.
The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
A flatterer or sycophant.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.