"claw back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "claws back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawing back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "claw back (third-person singular simple present claws back, present participle clawing back, simple past and past participle clawed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I was initially refused a refund, but eventually managed to claw back part of the money."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Michael Gove has tried to claw his way back into the race to be Britain’s next prime minister with a pledge to govern for “overlooked families and undervalued communities” – and a series of personal attacks on frontrunner Boris Johnson.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency."
      ],
      "id": "en-claw_back-en-verb-a~J9KLZ~",
      "links": [
        [
          "recover",
          "recover"
        ],
        [
          "retake",
          "retake"
        ],
        [
          "government",
          "government"
        ],
        [
          "official",
          "official"
        ],
        [
          "agency",
          "agency"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "claw back"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "claws back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawing back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clawed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "claw back (third-person singular simple present claws back, present participle clawing back, simple past and past participle clawed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I was initially refused a refund, but eventually managed to claw back part of the money."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Michael Gove has tried to claw his way back into the race to be Britain’s next prime minister with a pledge to govern for “overlooked families and undervalued communities” – and a series of personal attacks on frontrunner Boris Johnson.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recover",
          "recover"
        ],
        [
          "retake",
          "retake"
        ],
        [
          "government",
          "government"
        ],
        [
          "official",
          "official"
        ],
        [
          "agency",
          "agency"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "claw back"
}