clawback

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词形变化

clawbacks 复数 clawbacks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    美国 可数 不可数 法律
  2. 2.

    Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.

    美国 可数 不可数 金融 政治 法律
  3. 3.

    Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.

    美国 可数 不可数 商务

    The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.

  4. 4.

    A flatterer or sycophant.

    可数 废旧 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

return restoration restitution regaining

词源

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).

来源：wiktionary