See clawback on Wiktionary
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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).", "forms": [ { "form": "clawbacks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "clawback (countable and uncountable, plural clawbacks)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Law", "orig": "en:Law", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "35 40 20 5", "kind": "other", "name": "English deverbals", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "38 44 16 3", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "41 44 12 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], 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"w" }, { "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Taxation", "orig": "en:Taxation", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "35 40 20 5", "kind": "other", "name": "English deverbals", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "38 44 16 3", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 38 28 8", "kind": "other", "name": "English exocentric verb-noun compounds", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "41 44 12 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "36 41 21 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision." ], "id": "en-clawback-en-noun-SrXjywlU", "links": [ [ "taxation", "taxation" ], [ "law", "law#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision." ], "tags": [ "US", "countable", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "economics", "government", "law", "sciences", "taxation" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Business", "orig": "en:Business", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "35 40 20 5", "kind": "other", "name": "English deverbals", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "38 44 16 3", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "41 44 12 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "36 41 21 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 18, 26 ] ], "text": "The airline got a clawback provision in the event of 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Maister Hughe Latimer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI].”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 36, verso:", "text": "Take hede of theſe claubackes, theſe venemous people that wil come to you, that will folowe like Gnatoes and Paraſites, if you folowe them, you are oute of your boke.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A flatterer or sycophant." ], "id": "en-clawback-en-noun-75aGvN9l", "links": [ [ "flatterer", "flatterer" ], [ "sycophant", "sycophant" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant." ], "tags": [ "countable", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "clawback" }
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