What's the difference between clawback and entitle?

Clawback


Definition:

  • (n.) A flatterer or sycophant.
  • (a.) Flattering; sycophantic.
  • (v. t.) To flatter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is likely to call for banks to retain more capital and for some form of clawback if firms perform less well than expected.
  • (2) "If the same individual maximises the pension tax relief – they can put in up to £245,000 of their salary and get relief – then the cost of the tax relief clawback will be around £51,000.
  • (3) "If you listen to what Lloyds said in 2011 when they took the initial £3.2bn charge – that was used for a pretext for making a clawback on 12 executives.
  • (4) When they are paid next year the G20 deal brokered by Barack Obama and Brown means that a proportion of bonuses will be deferred and payments will be subject to clawback provisions.
  • (5) Any Treasury clawback will only serve to take resources still further from the frontline.
  • (6) Given that clawback has only been possible since 2010, attention focused on former chief executive Michael Geoghegan and Sandy Flockhart, the former boss of Mexican operations, who left this month due to ill health, as likely candidates for clawback.
  • (7) This includes monitoring sales to ensure that colleagues have met customer needs appropriately and communicated important information clearly … We also have clawback mechanisms in place for any colleagues who make inappropriate sales."
  • (8) And as the provisions continue to rise, Gordon believes the bank could look at further clawbacks against its executives.
  • (9) Such clawbacks may be a feature of the bonus season because of the waves of scandal to hit the industry ranging from payment protection insurance mis-selling in the UK to fines for Libor fixing and money laundering.
  • (10) Lagarde added that the IMF’s research suggests bonuses should be tied to longer-term, rather than short-term gains; and that banks should use “clawback”, to force staff who have hit their firm’s performance to pay back part of their bonuses.
  • (11) Hampton won't give numerical details, but explains that RBS is regularly recovering payments from previous years: We've done quite a lot of clawback in the last couple of years, on a variety of issues.
  • (12) (Carriers had a "clawback" clause in case customers abandoned the contract.)
  • (13) Osborne says the Britain has been leading the way on bankers remuneration in recent years, on transparency and clawbacks.
  • (14) "The Walker report has left in a reference to 'clawback' but it is not clear whether it means asking for the money back once it has been paid or forfeiture of the deferred, but as yet unpaid bonuses," said Alistair Woodland, a partner at Clifford Chance.
  • (15) If the regulator is allowed to cap retail electricity bills, a "clawback" mechanism, already used by some states in the US, would have to be incorporated based on future movements in wholesale energy markets.
  • (16) As of next April, the new lower threshold for clawback of working tax credit on income over £3,850 will mean that I will lose 48% of a proportion of my state pension and also of any small profits I might make in my business.
  • (17) Apparently this clawback arrangement will incentivise me to work.
  • (18) Ideally, these should be subject to clawback over the long-term.
  • (19) The bank is keen to avoid a fresh revolt at this annual meeting after its report outlining directors' pay and the clawback provisions is published next month.
  • (20) Bonuses must be spread over a longer period; they must be subject to clawback; more of the spoils must be paid in shares; and more information must be published about who gets what.

Entitle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."
  • (v. t.) To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.
  • (v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (2) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
  • (3) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
  • (4) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (5) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (6) The investigators likely to have questions for Clarke, who remains on the payroll until January when he too is entitled to a payoff of a year’s salary.
  • (7) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (8) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (9) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
  • (10) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
  • (11) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (12) The local role is the “how?” How do we deliver that entitlement in our community?
  • (13) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
  • (14) She is among up to 250,000 American-Israelis entitled to vote in Tuesday's US presidential election, the majority of whom are believed to be backing the Republican candidate.
  • (15) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
  • (16) Entitled Jobs, Justice and Equity, the report warned that growing inequality, marginalisation and disenfranchisement are threatening Africa's prospects and undermining the foundations of its recent success.
  • (17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
  • (18) A symposium entitled "Foetal and Neonatal Cell Transplantation and Retroviral Gene Therapy" recently organized under the aegis of the Mérieux Foundation in Annecy, France, brought together 100 scientists and clinicians from European countries and the United States.
  • (19) "If there are no systemic changes to our debt, to our entitlement programs, then I would vote no on raising the debt ceiling."
  • (20) This article discusses the effect of existing statutes and case law on three pivotal questions: To what sort of information are people entitled?

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