0 to get possession of something again with difficulty: --
1 if a share price claws back, or claws back a particular amount, it slowly increases after it has gone down: --
2 if a government or company claws back money it has already paid, it takes it back: --
3 to succeed in getting back something that was taken from you: --
4 to offer investors who already own shares in a company the right to buy some of the shares that it has offered to new investors --