- kickback
- {n.}, {slang}, {informal} Money paid illegally for favorable treatment. * /He was arrested for making kickback payments./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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kickback — kick·back / kik ˌbak/ n: a payment (as of money or property) made to one in a position to open up or control a source of income for the payor convicted of receiving kickback s for referrals compare bribe, payoff ◇ A kickback is specifically a… … Law dictionary
Kickback — usually refers to:* Political corruption * BriberyIt can also refer to: *The sports section of the long defunct Channel Four Daily * A variant of Blackwood convention in contract bridge * Kickback (Transformers) is an Insecticon character from… … Wikipedia
Kickback — sur scène au Hellfest en 2009 Pays d’origine France Genre musical … Wikipédia en Français
Kickback — (v. engl. Rückschlag ) steht für: Kick back, ein Effekt in der Finanzbranche Lenkerschlagen, ein gefährliches Phänomen, welches vor allem bei leichten und stark motorisierten Motorrädern (z. B. Sportmotorrädern) auftritt. Rückschlageffekt,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
kickback — kick back , n. 1. recoil, of a gun or machine, as in older automobile engines when started by turning a crank. [PJC] 2. A secret, and usually illegal, payment, by a recipient of money paid for goods or services, to a facilitator of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
kickback — (n.) also kick back, c.1900 in various mechanical senses, from KICK (Cf. kick) (v.) + BACK (Cf. back) (adv.). By 1926 in a slang sense of be forced to return pelf, pay back to victims, which was extended to illegal partial give backs of… … Etymology dictionary
kickback — [n] bribe cut, gift, graft, money under the table*, oil*, payment, payoff, payola, percentage, recompense, reward, share; concepts 192,344 … New thesaurus
kickback — ► NOUN 1) a sudden forceful recoil. 2) informal an illicit payment made to someone who has facilitated a transaction or appointment … English terms dictionary
kickback — ☆ kickback [kik′bak΄ ] n. 1. Informal a sharp, violent reaction 2. Slang a) a giving back of part of money received as payment, commission, etc., often as a result of coercion or an understanding b) the money so returned … English World dictionary
kickback — In the context of finance, refers to compensation of dealers by sales finance companies for discounting installment purchase paper. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary In the context of contracts, refers to secret payments made to insure that the… … Financial and business terms
kickback — UK [ˈkɪkˌbæk] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms kickback : singular kickback plural kickbacks mainly American informal money paid illegally to someone in exchange for something that they have done for you … English dictionary
