Today’s “Word of the Day” is “claw back“ and it is a phrasal verb meaning “get back, recover, take back (e.g. take money back from people through taxation after giving it to them as an allowance/subsidy/relief); reclaim, repossess, redeem, regain”.
Example Sentence: It is galling (angering/annoying) to chuck (throw/dump casually) £15bn of taxpayers’ money at fixing the work of property developers and their builders. But it is up to government to devise a way to finance the repair work and how to claw it back from a hugely profitable industry.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: don’t punish the innocent and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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