Kickback

3 definitions found

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

  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
        transaction, of a portion of that money; specifically, any
        portion of a gain made by the seller in a commercial
        transaction which is returned surreptitiously and
        illegally to a person (such as a purchasing agent) who
        authorized or recommended the purchase. It is generally
        considered a form of bribe.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kickback
       n : a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in
           order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction

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

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "kickback":
     abatement, agio, allowance, backfire, backlash, backlashing,
     bank discount, boomerang, bounce, bound, breakage, bribe, carom,
     cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, commission,
     compensation, concession, contrecoup, cut, deduction, depreciation,
     discount, drawback, kick, payola, penalty, penalty clause,
     percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, rebate,
     rebatement, rebound, rebuff, recalcitration, recoil, recoupment,
     reduction, refund, refundment, reimbursement, repayment,
     repercussion, repulse, resilience, restitution, return, reward,
     ricochet, rollback, salvage, setoff, share, spring, tare,
     time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, write-off