Definition of clawbacks:
(n) :
(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
(n) :
(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
(n) :
(US law 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.
(n) :
(obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.