Drawback

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Drawback ·noun 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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