Drawback

n.	1.	A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. - Hallam.
	2.	(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.

Noun

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drawback - the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

DRAWBACK, com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. For the various acts of congress which regulate drawbacks, see Story, L. U. S. Index, h.t.

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