noun. A disadvantage or inconvenience. synonym: disadvantage.

noun. A refund or remittance, such as a discount on duties or taxes for goods destined for reexport.

noun. Any loss of advantage or impairment of profit, value, success, or satisfaction; a discouragement or hindrance; a disadvantage.

noun. Money or an amount paid back; usually, a certain amount of duties or customs dues paid back or remitted to an importer when he exports goods that he has previously imported and paid duty on, as, for instance, tobacco, or a certain amount of excise paid back or allowed on the exportation of home manufactures. Abbreviated dbk.

noun. In iron-founding, a loose piece in a mold. In brass-founding such a piece is called a false core.

noun. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

noun. Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.

noun. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

noun. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

noun. the quality of being a hindrance

verb. pull back or move away or backward

verb. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

"The main drawback is that the lawn could sink as the old turf rots, so you need to build it up a little higher than you might otherwise, to allow for shrinkage."

disadvantage  pull  

catch  gimmick  

blemish  blunder  defect  dilemma  disadvantage  

abatement  agio  allowance  bank discount  blemish