Definitions for drawback
ˈdrɔˌbækdraw·back

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drawbacknoun

   the quality of being a hindrance

   "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. drawbacknoun

   A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

   Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.

2. drawbacknoun

   A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

3. Etymology: draw + back

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drawbacknoun

   Money paid back for ready payment, or any other reason.

   Etymology: draw and back.

   In poundage and drawbacks I lose half my rent;
   Whatever they give me, I must be content. Jonathan Swift.

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1. drawback

   A drawback is a disadvantage or negative feature that makes something less appealing, effective, or beneficial. It refers to any characteristic, condition or aspect of a situation, plan, product, etc. that makes it less favorable.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drawbacknoun

   a loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature

2. Drawbacknoun

   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

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1. Drawback

   Drawback is the name of the fifth album by German band X Marks the Pedwalk. It was released by Zoth Ommog in Europe and Metropolis Records in North America, both in CD format.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drawback

   An abatement or reduction of duties allowed by the custom-house in certain cases; as for stores to naval officers in commission.

Matched Categories

1. • Disadvantage

Anagrams for drawback »

1. backward

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drawback in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drawback in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of drawback in a Sentence

1. Sinan Ulgen:

   It will be seen as the party that has forced early elections on a recalcitrant Turkish electorate at a time when there are severe challenges, both from the security perspective and also economically, the drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

2. Anne Grete Hestnes:

   Their basic drawback is their relatively low efficiency, however, it is all a question of price. If the transparent cells are cheaper, and if the cells are to cover a relatively large area... it may be the better solution.

3. Sinan Ulgen:

   The drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

4. Yvonne Maldonado:

   Pooled testing can be one good option if schools decide to do routing surveillance testing. The benefits are that the tests can be batched and run together, decreasing time to getting The Results and potentially decreasing cost of testing, the major drawback is that pooled testing is best used in low prevalence settings, because if there is a positive pool then all of the individual samples in that' batch' have to be disaggregated and tested individually to identify the actual positive sample or samples.

5. Kurt Russell:

   I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=drawback
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drawback
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=drawback
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drawback
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=drawback
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=drawback