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drawback definition

draw·back (drô′bak′)

noun

  1. ☆ money paid back from a charge previously made; refund, esp. of import duties when the taxed commodities are later exported
  2. anything that prevents or lessens full satisfaction; shortcoming

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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