clawback

Definitions

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.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
   US, countable, uncountable
3. Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
   US, countable, uncountable
4. A flatterer or sycophant.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

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

“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.”

CEFR level