clawback

Meaning

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.
• Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
• Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
• A flatterer or sycophant.

Related

Similar words

• malus

Origin

• claw + back. 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).