Usually means: Negative consequences of a decision.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. drawbacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. drawbacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drawbacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Drawbacks, drawbacks: Wordnik
  5. drawbacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. drawbacks: Wiktionary
  7. drawbacks: Dictionary.com
  8. drawbacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. drawbacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drawbacks: Legal dictionary
  2. drawbacks: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drawbacks: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drawback)

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 inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.
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