drawback
See also: draw back
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drawback (plural drawbacks)
- A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
- A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
- 1796, David Steel, New and Complete Tables of the Net Duties payable, and drawbacks allowed, on goods, wares, and merchandises..., page 5:
- East-India goods, not specifically and particularly rated, are to be liable to duties and drawbacks on the value, to be taken by the gross price at the company's public sales.
- The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.
Translations edit
a disadvantage
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a partial refund
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inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
drawback m (plural drawbacks)
Further reading edit
- “drawback”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.