clawback

Definitions

• (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.
• (US) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
• (US) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
• (obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.