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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drawback \Draw"back`\, n.
     1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value,
        success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance;
        objectionable feature.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a
              drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. --Hallam.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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. --M?Culloch.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "drawback":
     abatement, agio, allowance, bank discount, blemish, block,
     blockade, bottleneck, breakage, bug, cash discount, catch,
     chain discount, charge-off, concession, cordon, crack, curtain,
     cut, damage, deduction, defect, defection, deficiency,
     depreciation, determent, deterrent, detriment, difficulty,
     disability, disadvantage, discount, evil, failing, failure, fault,
     faute, flaw, foible, frailty, handicap, hang-up, harm, hazard,
     hindrance, hitch, hole, hurdle, hurt, ill, impairment, impediment,
     imperfection, inadequacy, inconvenience, infirmity, injury, joker,
     kickback, kink, liability, little problem, loss, loss of ground,
     mischief, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive,
     one small difficulty, penalty, penalty clause, percentage,
     prejudice, premium, price reduction, price-cut, problem, rebate,
     rebatement, reduction, refund, rift, rollback, rub, salvage,
     setoff, shortcoming, snag, something missing, step backward,
     stumbling block, stumbling stone, taint, tare, time discount,
     trade discount, tret, trouble, underselling, vulnerable place,
     weak link, weak point, weakness, write-off
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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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