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Definition of: drawback
(drô′bak′) noun
1. Anything that checks or hinders progress, success, prosperity, enjoyment, contentment, etc.; a disadvantage.
2. An allowance, consisting in a total or partial paying back, as of duties previously paid on imported articles on their being exported, or as of freight paid to a railway company; rebate.
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