Associations to the word «Clawback»

Wiktionary

CLAWBACK, noun. (US legal of evidence) 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.
CLAWBACK, noun. (US taxation legal) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision.
CLAWBACK, noun. (US) (business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
CLAWBACK, noun. (obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.

Dictionary definition

CLAWBACK, noun. Finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way; "the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King