0 an amount of money that is paid to someone illegally in exchange for secret help or work --
1 payment made to someone, esp. illegally, for providing help, a job, or a piece of business: --
Bankhead got a contract to supply computers to the department in exchange for a kickback.
2 an amount of money that is secretly and illegally paid to someone in exchange for their help: --
His father was indicted in 1981 in a kickback scheme but acquitted.
A rash attack might easily lead to a boomerang effect and a kickback which would put back the cause of purification of the rivers rather than forward it.
Such a kickback is an appalling prospect.
The soldier who was opposite, who fired it, heeled over and had a severe crack under the jaw from a kickback which he was not expecting.
By contrast, there are numerous interests that wish to establish landfill sites in certain regions and set up incineration units etc. from which they can obtain kickbacks, rake-offs and profits.
It may produce a kickback.
We also need to consider how to tackle the profits of bunkering and the oil-related kickbacks.
It is an organisation that runs with pride in itself and not embarrassment about the political kickbacks that occurred.
