clawback

Meanings

Plural: clawbacks

Noun

• finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
  • "the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received"
• 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.

Synonyms

malus