clawback
(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
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For gods sakes, this 🤬🤬 project started out at $200M of which ALL would be paid for by tech brown nosing billionaires. Now it’s $1B of TAXPAYER money?!? 🤬🤬🤬 We need to clawback $billion$ in grift when we dislodg…
I think we have more tools at our disposal than criminal. We can get an injunction, we can clawback, and we can prosecute at the state level. It’s not as tidy as you imagine. Also, pardons for covering up presidential…
Is there a clawback provision?
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(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
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(US, _, taxation, _, legal) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
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(US, _, legal, _, of evidence) 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.
The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
“For gods sakes, this 🤬🤬 project started out at $200M of which ALL would be paid for by tech brown nosing billionaires. Now it’s $1B of TAXPAYER money?!? 🤬🤬🤬 We need to clawback $billion$ in grift when we dislodge him from office!!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I think we have more tools at our disposal than criminal. We can get an injunction, we can clawback, and we can prosecute at the state level. It’s not as tidy as you imagine. Also, pardons for covering up presidential crimes may not be as secure as they’d hoped.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Is there a clawback provision?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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