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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drawback
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ From our point of view marriage has one big drawback, you see.
▪ For many seasonal workers, the biggest drawback can be the irregular hours and erratic schedules.
▪ It was run on accumulator batteries which were filled with acid, and they were the big drawback.
▪ The biggest single drawback of solar cells, then, is the need for storing two weeks' worth of power.
▪ The biggest drawbacks are weight and bulk.
▪ But their biggest drawback was that they caused chilblains.
▪ The big drawbacks are the blurred speech, tinkly background music and dull presentation.
main
▪ The main drawback at the moment is the weight of the batteries.
▪ The main drawback was that Edwin rarely visited North Terrace.
▪ Its main drawback is that it does not discriminate between authorised and unauthorised absences.
▪ The main drawback to many of these products is that they tend to be too salty, especially for reductions.
▪ Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces: such exceptional warriors are rare.
▪ However, the main drawback with this type of search engine is its tendency to catalog too much information.
▪ However, the main drawback to the consumer is the cost.
▪ The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration.
major
▪ Unfortunately, the jacket has a major drawback should you want to go climbing in it.
▪ One major drawback is readers' inability to decide which stories to read.
▪ Does it have any major drawbacks?
▪ Its major drawback is the significant chance that the cleared vessels will close again weeks or months after treatment.
▪ The major drawback being that such methods are computationally expensive.
▪ The major drawback of Windows as an operating environment is its heavy power and memory requirements.
▪ But there are two major drawbacks.
▪ Both share one major drawback: generality.
only
▪ The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously.
▪ Natural Weapons Knee: A real battering ram; its only drawback is that your groin is vulnerable as you move in.
▪ This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback, but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope's taste.
▪ Its only drawback is that it can be somewhat unreliable.
▪ She adored the upstairs in Glasgow trams, the only drawback being that it was where the smokers went.
serious
▪ However, there are serious drawbacks to this approach which relies very much on the analyst's interpretational skills and subjective judgement.
▪ But as valuable as animals are, they have a serious drawback: by and large, they hate alcohol.
▪ Also, I didn't have an idea, which is always rather a serious drawback.
▪ To some critics, this seemingly endless procession of school fund-raisers has a serious drawback.
▪ But it also has some serious drawbacks, especially during times of far-reaching change.
■ VERB
suffer
▪ Unfortunately, it suffers from an important drawback.
▪ Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces: such exceptional warriors are rare.
▪ Opinion surveys suffer from various drawbacks, the most important of which is that they reflect opinion and not necessarily behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ High house prices are one drawback to economic growth.
▪ It's a good-looking car - the only drawback is the price.
▪ One of the major drawbacks of being famous is the lack of privacy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And believe me, it's a drawback.
▪ But retrospective diagnosis has obvious drawbacks.
▪ Like many offshoot sports, the increasingly popular use of inflatable kayaks has its advantages and drawbacks.
▪ One major drawback is readers' inability to decide which stories to read.
▪ The drawbacks of this relationship are its stolid dullness and its tendency to focus power in a small circle of people.
▪ The Monopolies Commission took the line that the benefits of a more liberal regime outweighed any drawbacks.
▪ The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously.
▪ Yet it is important to notice that they too have their drawbacks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawback

Drawback \Draw"back`\, n.

  1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

    The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him.
    --Hallam.

  2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
    --M?Culloch.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drawback

"hindrance, disadvantage,"1720, from draw (v.) + back (adv.). The notion is of something that "holds back" success or activity.

Wiktionary
drawback

n. 1 A disadvantage; something that detracts or take away. 2 A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

WordNet
drawback

n. the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

Wikipedia
Drawback

Drawback, in law in commerce, paying back a duty previously paid on exporting excisable articles or on re-exporting foreign goods. The object of a drawback is to let commodities which are subject to taxation be exported and sold in a foreign country on the same terms as goods from countries where they are untaxed. It differs from a bounty in that a bounty lets commodities be sold abroad at less than their cost price; it may occur, however, under certain conditions that giving a drawback has an effect equivalent to that of a bounty, as in the case of the so-called sugar bounties in Germany (see sugar). The earlier tariffs contained elaborate tables of the drawbacks allowed on exporting or re-exporting commodities, but so far as the United Kingdom was concerned (as of the early twentieth century) the system of bonded warehouses practically abolished drawbacks, as commodities could be warehoused (placed in bond) until needed for exportation.

Drawback (album)

Drawback is the name of the fifth album by German band X Marks the Pedwalk. It was released by Zoth Ommog in Europe and Metropolis Records in North America, both in CD format.

Drawback (disambiguation)

Drawback is a term used in commerce.

Drawback may also refer to:

  • Drawback (album), a 1996 album by X Marks the Pedwalk
  • Tsunami#Drawback, the withdrawal of water

Usage examples of "drawback".

And using the capital would have too many political drawbacks for General Aur and the rest of the new government.

I started seeing Mel because he was single and not bad-looking and the weekday assistant cook at the coffeehouse, with that interesting bad-boy aura from driving a motorcycle and having a few too many tattoos, and no known serious drawbacks.

But he had only begun to enjoy the refreshing breaths of cool air, and had remarked to A Hoa that days reminded him of Canadian summers, when the weather gave him to understand that every Formosan season has its drawbacks.

Congress impose duties on importations, give drawbacks, pass embargo and nonintercourse laws, and make all other regulations necessary to navigation, to the safety of passengers, and the protection of property.

There is a major drawback, of course, occasioned by the Parnassian Block, about which I have written you many times before.

The drawback to using such Xrays is great, of course, since they are so dangerous not only to the patient but to the operator as well.

The longed-for crisis had arrived, revealing drawbacks in the Cummins method.

Still, taking these drawbacks into consideration, the chance was far too good to miss.

Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment.

Still, there are circumstances which I submit may be taken into account as a set off against any little drawbacks of mine, and so a fair and equitable balance arrived at.

From these little details it may, perhaps, be understood how a town like Chicago goes on and prospers in spite of all the drawbacks which are incident to newness.

Karsus himself demonstrates all castings, noting drawbacks, details, and effective strategies.

If it had not been for this drawback I should probably have cultivated his society.

The obvious drawbacks to this approach are that it is costly, often produces inferior simulations for the new additions, and quickly results in extremely large codes with commensurate large code management problems.

Compared with cereals and legumes, they had the drawback of not starting to yield food until at least three years after planting, and not reaching full production until after as much as a decade.