¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clawbacks
1. clawback [n] - See also: clawback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clawbacks
Literary usage of Clawbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"Misgovern'd both my kingdom and my life, I gave myself to ease and sleep and sin,
And I had clawbacks e'en at Court full rife, Which sought by outrage ..."
2. Budget Issues: Privatization/Divestiture Practices in Other Nations by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Both the United Kingdom and New Zealand use "clawbacks" to address ... clawbacks in
the United Kingdom have been used to protect the government (that is, ..."
3. United States by Mark Keese, Peter Whiteford, Kimiyo Yagi (2005)
"However, because of extensive private-sector provision of social benefits,
relatively small tax clawbacks and relatively large tax concessions, ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... e might take a lesson from him in calling names: "those nattering
clawbacks," "pot-gospellers," "these bladder-puffed up wily men," ..."
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