Clawback

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  • n. 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.
  • n. Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision.
  • n. Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A flatterer or sycophant.
  • adj. Flattering; sycophantic.
  • v. To flatter.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. . Literally, one who claws the back; hence, one who fawns on another; a sycophant; a wheedler.
  • n. Same as back-scratcher, 1.
  • Flattering.
  • To fawn on; curry favor with.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    restoration    regaining    return    restitution   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flattering    sycophantic    flatter    malus   
     
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