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claw back

   Also found in: Medical, Financial, Encyclopedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
claw back
vb (tr, adverb)
1. to get back (something) with difficulty
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to recover (a sum of money), esp by taxation or a penalty
n clawback
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or a penalty
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the sum so recovered
Translations
? claw back
vt sep (taxman etc)sich (dat)zurückholen


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The increase was mooted last month but could get now the go-ahead as the Government struggles to claw back EUR4.
THE wife of back-from the- dead canoeist John Darwin was in court again yesterday as legal moves began to claw back the hundreds of thousands of pounds the couple swindled out of financial institutions.
Liverpool council says the claw back is the largest by any authority in the UK to date.
 
 
 
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