drawback
drawback is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(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
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- accident
- adversity
- agio
- allow
- allowance
- and
- awry
- backwardation
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- bargain
- bate
- below
- blow
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- business
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- concession
- contango
- cost
- coupon
- crying
- damage
- demon
- depreciation
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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