clawback

Other forms: clawbacks

Definitions of clawback
  1. 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”
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    type of:
    regaining, restitution, restoration, return
    getting something back again
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