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kickback

[ kik-bak ]

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noun

a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
a rebate, usually given secretively by a seller to a buyer or to one who influenced the buyer.
the practice of an employer or a person in a supervisory position of taking back a portion of the wages due workers.
a response, usually vigorous.
a sudden, uncontrolled movement of a machine, tool, or other device, as on starting or in striking an obstruction:
A kickback from a chain saw can be dangerous.

kickback

/ ˈkɪkˌbæk /

a strong reaction
part of an income paid to a person having influence over the size or payment of the income, esp by some illegal arrangement

1930–35, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase kick back

I never had a single kickback/redlined report at Southwest division and Sgt. XXXX and Sgt. XXXX can testify to that.

Another Russian word the actor might learn, the commenters proposed, was raspilit, or "kickback."

So there's the memory of the "Cornhusker Kickback" with nothing to show for it.

His involvement in the ill-fated "Cornhusker Kickback" remains politically poisonous back home, and that won't be changing soon.

Then Mubarak and his family and their allies would see benefits in return, presumably some kickback or a share of the profits.

The nerves of Average Jones gave a sharp "kickback," like a mis-cranked motor-car.

The "kickback" would have certainly killed or wounded us both.

I want to set down what happened in case there's ever a kickback although I don't think there ever will be.

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