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How to pronounce clawback in English?

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Type of regaining, restitution, restoration, return


the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received.

Examples of clawback

clawback
It reserves the right to clawback payments to creditors if it paid them too much.
From the theatlantic.com
The word for it is clawback, and it's not forthcoming, at least not anytime soon.
From the time.com
Picard has not said whether he is pursuing a clawback claim against the Shapiros.
From the boston.com
Per 2008 proxy statements, 27 of the Dow 30 companies had clawback provisions.
From the businessweek.com
A sledgehammer of a blow as he removed the right to clawback 10% of the dividends.
From the guardian.co.uk
Bank of America is planning to extend its clawback provision to its top executives.
From the time.com
Only one of the cases seems to involve a clawback of executive compensation.
From the nytimes.com
The possibility of such a clawback, as it's called, seems extremely remote.
From the forbes.com
We must have a CLAWBACK of ALL bank bonuses paid out between 2005 and 2009.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • 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; Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision; ...
  • A clawback provision ensures that a general partner does not receive more than its agreed percentage of carried interest over the life of the fund. ...
  • A clause in the agreement between the general partner and the limited partners of a private equity fund. ...
  • A system allowing third party payers to recoup (part of the) discounts/rebates granted in a reimbursement system between various stakeholders, e.g. wholesalers and pharmacists. [Source: PPRI Glossary]
  • A dividend clawback is an arrangement whereby the equity owners commit to use dividends they have received in the past to finance the cash needs of the project or corporation in the future. Clawback has a more general definition. ...
  • Price cuts or increases instituted by a regulator to "claw back" the incremental gain resulting from an underestimate of the X factor, an assumed rate of productivity increase; contract provisions that require tax incentives to be given back
  • Under this provision investors can claim back any profits that private equity managers have taken above the agreed profit-split. If the agreement is for the GP to take a 20 per cent share of profits, presuming any are made, then triggering the clawback allows LPs to reclaim any excess profits taken.
  • Terms of sale enabling the vendor to receive, in defined circumstances, a proportion of any subsequent profit made by the purchaser after sale - for example following the disposal of surplus land or other assets, or if the purchaser disposes of the business