ALL meanings of claw back
claw back
C c - phrasal verb claw back If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again. 3
- phrasal verb claw back If a government claws back money, it finds a way of taking money back from people that it gave money to in another way. 3
- verb claw back to get back (something) with difficulty 3
- verb claw back to recover (a sum of money), esp by taxation or a penalty 3
- noun claw back the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or a penalty 3
- noun claw back the sum so recovered 3
- transitivephrasal verb claw back recover: financial loss 1
- transitivephrasal verb claw back recover: sth lost 1
- verb claw back (Transitive Verb) To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost. 0