Usually means: Reclaiming funds paid out earlier.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word clawback:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. clawback: Merriam-Webster
  2. clawback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clawback: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clawback: Vocabulary.com
  5. Clawback, clawback: Wordnik
  6. clawback: Dictionary.com
  7. Clawback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Clawback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. clawback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. clawback: Rhymezone
  11. Clawback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. clawback: FreeDictionary.org
  13. clawback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. clawback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. clawback: Wiktionary
  16. clawback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. clawback: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. clawback: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. Clawback: Investopedia
  6. clawback: Financial dictionary

(Note: See clawbacks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US law of evidence) 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:  (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
noun:  (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
noun:  (obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.

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