drawback
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
drawback
n 1: the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the
drawbacks to my plan"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drawback \Draw"back`\, n.
1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value,
success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance;
objectionable feature.
[1913 Webster]
The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a
drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. --Hallam.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain
amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and
sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the
government, on the exportation of the commodities on which
they were levied. --M?Culloch.
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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DRAWBACK, com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the
reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some
cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had
been paid upon the importation. For the various acts of congress which
regulate drawbacks, see Story, L. U. S. Index, h.t.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "drawback":
abatement, agio, allowance, bank discount, blemish, block,
blockade, bottleneck, breakage, bug, cash discount, catch,
chain discount, charge-off, concession, cordon, crack, curtain,
cut, damage, deduction, defect, defection, deficiency,
depreciation, determent, deterrent, detriment, difficulty,
disability, disadvantage, discount, evil, failing, failure, fault,
faute, flaw, foible, frailty, handicap, hang-up, harm, hazard,
hindrance, hitch, hole, hurdle, hurt, ill, impairment, impediment,
imperfection, inadequacy, inconvenience, infirmity, injury, joker,
kickback, kink, liability, little problem, loss, loss of ground,
mischief, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive,
one small difficulty, penalty, penalty clause, percentage,
prejudice, premium, price reduction, price-cut, problem, rebate,
rebatement, reduction, refund, rift, rollback, rub, salvage,
setoff, shortcoming, snag, something missing, step backward,
stumbling block, stumbling stone, taint, tare, time discount,
trade discount, tret, trouble, underselling, vulnerable place,
weak link, weak point, weakness, write-off
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