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kick back

/kik-bak/US // ˈkɪkˌbæk //UK // (ˈkɪkˌbæk) //

踢回,还击,踢回来,踢球

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
    • : a rebate, usually given secretively by a seller to a buyer or to one who influenced the buyer.
    • : the practice of an employer or a person in a supervisory position of taking back a portion of the wages due workers.
    • : a response, usually vigorous.
    • : a sudden, uncontrolled movement of a machine, tool, or other device, as on starting or in striking an obstruction: A kickback from a chain saw can be dangerous.

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Examples

  • After kickbacks, rows, and flys, my muscles were tight—the type of tightness I’d feel after doing the same exercises with 40-pound dumbbells—and pulsing intermittently as Ruiz adjusted the machine’s dials.

  • While the complaints alleged “possible kickbacks and collusion,” they did not provide “any firsthand information related to criminal activity,” according to the report.

  • In 2014, DaVita agreed to pay $350 million to settle claims that it had provided illegal kickbacks to doctors.

  • In 2014, the firm agreed to pay more than $350 million to settle claims that it had given illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for patient referrals.

  • These stores used their scale to leverage kickbacks and discounts from suppliers and deployed “loss leaders” — popular items with deeply slashed prices — both to ruin competitors and entice customers into the store.

  • I never had a single kickback/redlined report at Southwest division and Sgt. XXXX and Sgt. XXXX can testify to that.

  • Another Russian word the actor might learn, the commenters proposed, was raspilit, or "kickback."

  • So there's the memory of the "Cornhusker Kickback" with nothing to show for it.

  • His involvement in the ill-fated "Cornhusker Kickback" remains politically poisonous back home, and that won't be changing soon.

  • Then Mubarak and his family and their allies would see benefits in return, presumably some kickback or a share of the profits.

  • The nerves of Average Jones gave a sharp "kickback," like a mis-cranked motor-car.

  • The "kickback" would have certainly killed or wounded us both.

  • I want to set down what happened in case there's ever a kickback although I don't think there ever will be.