Usually means: Disadvantage or negative aspect encountered.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word drawback:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. drawback: Merriam-Webster
  2. drawback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drawback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drawback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drawback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drawback, drawback: Wordnik
  7. drawback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drawback: Wiktionary
  9. drawback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drawback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drawback: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Drawback, drawback: Dictionary.com
  13. drawback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Drawback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Drawback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. drawback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. drawback: Rhymezone
  18. drawback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. drawback: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Drawback: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. drawback: FreeDictionary.org
  22. drawback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. drawback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. drawback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. drawback: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Drawback: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  7. Drawback: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  9. drawback: Legal dictionary
  10. Drawback: Financial dictionary
  11. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drawback: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drawback: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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