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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: economics, government, law, sciences, taxation
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noun
Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: business
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Broader terms: takeback
noun
A flatterer or sycophant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: restitution, return, restoration, regaining
History
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).
