noun. The recovery of money that has been disbursed, as by a government, pension, or company.

noun. . Literally, one who claws the back; hence, one who fawns on another; a sycophant; a wheedler.

noun. Same as back-scratcher, 1.

Flattering.

To fawn on; curry favor with.

transitive verb. To flatter.

noun. A flatterer or sycophant.

adjective. Flattering; sycophantic.

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.

noun. Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision.

noun. Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.

noun. finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way

"The term clawback'' is bandied about more these days because of the preponderance of Ponzi schemes that have collapsed in recent years."

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