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kickback

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kickback

1. A percentage of a profit paid to someone who facilitated the profit, typically through illegal means, such as using a government position to ease restrictions on a business deal. The politician was receiving kickbacks for years, and now the full extent of his corruption has been revealed.
2. The recoil of a machine, especially a gun. Careful, that rifle's got a heck of a kickback.
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Kickback typically occurs when a chisel cutter, instead of cutting normally and forming a chip, cuts too deeply and becomes lodged in the work piece.
"This was a sophisticated kickback scheme," said Tim McCormack, a Phillips & Cohen lawyer in Washington.
Other cutting bar improvements minimize the possibility of kickback. These include reducing the cutting bar tip's radius and narrowing its profile.
In some instances, the blade may screech as it binds or slows, signaling a potential kickback situation.
Earlier this year, HUD settled cases in Texas and Oklahoma for nearly $7 million that involved alleged kickbacks from title insurers to lenders, realty agents, builders and developers sending them customers.
During this observation, we instructed Craig on the importance of foot position, kickback and proper postural awareness.
* December 1999: Bond is indicted and charged with taking $6.9 million in a kickback scheme.
Sato has been charged with failing to declare about 172 million yen in income tax, which prosecutors say he obtained as kickbacks and rewards for mainly helping construction companies secure public works projects.
Since it is a violation to solicit a kickback as much as it is to give one, this would imply that the SNF could be prosecuted based on asking for the free service.
Vendor relationships can become problematic when the party referring the business (usually the nursing home) receives something of value from the party receiving the referral (commonly called a kickback).
According to Piercy, a frequent cause of serious injury from chain saws is called "kickback." "Kickback is when the top half of the saw nose hits an obstruction and flies back at lightning speed," Piercy said.
More indictments are expected this week against cooperative and condominium managers who have been allegedly involved in vendor kickback schemes.
Specifically, the statute made it a misdemeanor for any individual to furnish, solicit, offer or receive any kickback, bribe or rebate in connection with any item or service for which payment could be made under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
TULSA David Tsui and Wellcare Consulting LLC, a North Carolina marketing company, have agreed to pay the government $414,108 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding LLC, announced U.S.
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