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clawback

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun clawback has 1 sense

clawback(n = noun.act) Array - 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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clawback, n.

A flatterer or sycophant. Latimer. [1913 Webster]

clawback, a.

Flattering; sycophantic. [1913 Webster]

"Like a clawback parasite." [1913 Webster]

clawback, v. t.

To flatter. Warner. [1913 Webster]

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clawback

Flatterer

N flatterer, adulator, eulogist, euphemist, optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher, toady, toadeater, sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, flaneur, proneur, puffer, touter, claqueur, clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work, parasite, hanger-on, yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet, pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.

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