kickback
kickback 英 [ˈkɪkbæk] 美 [ˈkɪkˌbæk]
n. 回扣，佣金；强烈反应；退回赃物
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- n. 回扣，佣金；强烈反应；退回赃物
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1. Prosecutors also allege that Wu took a kickback of 2.7 million US dollars in connection with a construction project in a 154-page indictment.
在一份长达154页的起诉书中，检方还指控吴淑珍收受了与一项建筑工程相关的270万美元的回扣。
- kickback (n.) also kick-back, "mechanical reaction in an engine," from 1905 in various mechanical senses, from the verbal phrase (1895); see kick (v.) + back (adv.). By 1926 the verbal phrase was being used in a slang sense of "be forced to return pelf, pay back to victims," which was extended to illegal partial give-backs of government-set wages that were extorted from workers by employers. Hence the noun in the sense of "illegal or improper payment" (1932). The verbal phrase in the sense "make oneself comfortable, prepare to relax" is from 1975.
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