clawback

Etymology
. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back", or reclaimed; in the sense of a flatterer, it suggests the idea of a person's back being scratched (see ).

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  A flatterer or sycophant.
 * 1)  A flatterer or sycophant.

Synonyms

 * malus