drawback

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɹɔːˌbæk/, X-SAMPA: /"drO:%b{k/

Etymology

draw + back

Noun

drawback (plural drawbacks)

1. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

   Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.

2. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

Translations

a disadvantage

• Bulgarian: пречка (bg) (prečka) f, затруднение (bg) (zatrudnenie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缺點 (cmn), 缺点 (cmn) (quēdiǎn)

• Czech: nevýhoda (cs) f, zápor (cs) m
• Finnish: haitta (fi), haittapuoli (fi), varjopuoli (fi), huono puoli (fi)
• French: inconvénient (fr) m
• German: Nachteil (de) m
• Hungarian: hátrány (hu)

• Italian: svantaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 欠点 (ja) (けってん, ketten)
• Norwegian: ulempe f
• Polish: wada (pl) f
• Portuguese: desvantagem (pt) f
• Russian: недостаток (ru) (nedostátok) m, изъян (ru) (izʺján) m
• Spanish: desventaja (es)
• Swedish: baksida (sv) c, nackdel (sv) c

a partial refund

• Finnish: palautus (fi)

• French: drawback (fr) m

Anagrams

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