drawback Definition
draw·back (drô′bak′)
noun
- ☆ money paid back from a charge previously made; refund, esp. of import duties when the taxed commodities are later exported
- anything that prevents or lessens full satisfaction; shortcoming
drawback Synonyms
drawback Finance Definition
A
rebate given by a government on duties or taxes that were paid on imported
goods that were used to create other goods, or repackaged and exported again.
drawback Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- element: Ideally one needs to find a combination of techniques which avoids some of the drawbacks of the above elements.
- approach: This seeks to remedy the drawbacks of the conventional approach.
- method: The drawback of these methods is the slow rates at which they heat up the boards.
- kind: The one major drawback of this kind of leather is that is easily damaged by water.
- technology: Article continues What are the benefits and drawbacks of the various technologies?
- scheme: The main drawback of a final salary scheme, as far as employers are concerned, is that it is an unknown cost.
Converse of object
- outweigh: It does, however, have significant advantages over the pointer method which far outweigh the minor drawback of adding extra code.
- overcome: It overcame these drawbacks by providing the building blocks for implementing robust, modular data connections for a wide variety of hardware configurations.
- associate: However, there are drawbacks associated with Bt crops.
- have: They do, however, have drawbacks which water jet tools could overcome.
- suffer: All of the proposed venues suffer one major drawback - they are not in central Sidmouth.
- mention: As a native speaker, I highly recommend this book although I should mention some drawback for non-native speakers.
Adjective modifier
- slight: A slight drawback is the use of 8.3 filenames.
- serious: The lack of such a symbol is one of the serious drawbacks in the Roman numeral system.
- major: The major drawback will be the financial aspects involve.
- obvious: The up shift Critics of the study point to a number of obvious drawbacks.
- inherent: However the inherent drawback with single candles is that pause between each shot.
- main: The main drawback for the client may be higher cost.
Preposition: with
approach: The main drawback with this approach is the large number of " realistic " test cases required.
Noun used with modifier
duty: To encourage export of package tea duty drawback at that rates on FOB value will be provided on import of packing materials.
Browse dictionary entries near drawback
- ‹ draw up
- ‹ draw poker
- ‹ draw out
- ‹ draw on or upon
- ‹ draw back
- ‹ draw away
- ‹ draw
- ‹ Dravidian
- ‹ drave
- ‹ Drava
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