clawback

  1. Noun.  (US, _) 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.
  2. Noun.  (US, _) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision.
  3. Noun.  (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.

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