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Definition: Clawback |
ClawbackNoun1. (British) 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | A provision to recover tax relief which proves in retrospect not to have been due. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flatterer | Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
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| "Clawback" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Clawback" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.22% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (common) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clawback | 3 |
clawback equity | 2 |
clawback oas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clawback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | skattelettelser,der modsvares af højere afgifter (claw-back). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | terugboeking (claw-back, reversal, reversing). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | disposition de récupération (claw-back). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Besteuerung von Wohlfahrtstransfers (claw-back). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | drenaggio (drain, drainage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | awbackclay disposición de desgravación improcedente (claw-back). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-k-l-w" | |
-3 letters: aback, alack, bacca, black, cabal, clack. | |
-4 letters: alba, baal, back, balk, bawl, blaw, caca, calk, claw, lack, wack, walk. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, awa, awl, baa, bal, cab, caw, kab, lab, lac, law, wab. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 61 77 62 61 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- .--. -... .- -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100001 01110111 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a w b a c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 0077 0062 0061 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778678968676977 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, danese, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, allemand, tedesco, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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