8 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
noun finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
originDeverbal from claw back. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back", or reclaimed; in the sense of a flatterer, it suggests the idea of a person's back being scratched (see scratch someone's back).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0