'kickback' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that can mean a return payment or reward, usually for doing something illegal or unethical, or an act of retribution. For example: "The corrupt politician was caught taking kickbacks from companies that wanted his influence."
But the career kickback for me was rapid promotion.
Nike has strongly defended itself against insinuations that these overpayments were a form of kickback, saying that the indictment does "not allege that Nike engaged in criminal conduct" or that "any Nike employee was aware of or knowingly participated in any bribery or kickback scheme".
He bolstered his position as opposition foreign affairs spokesman with fiery performances in parliament, pressing prime minister John Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer on their alleged roles in kickback scandals in which Australia's monopoly wheat exporter was found to have paid bribes to Saddam Hussein under the UN oil-for-food programme.
Hawilla is said to have pleaded guilty to paying a high-ranking, unnamed CBF official half his commission, totalling "in the millions", by way of bribe and kickback for sealing the deal.
Still, at least the kickback system is intelligible.
The Hypo Bank case indicates that Sanader allegedly arranged a 4m Deutsche Mark loan for his neighbour, Miroslav Kutle, in the 1990s and received an 800,000 DM kickback from Kutle in return.That is not the half of it.
These fancy cabs drive Japanese bureaucrats home in the evening, provide a few beers, snacks and sometimes a discreet kickback (usually in the form of a shop voucher, sometimes good old cash).
On October 2nd, during the last televised debate before the first round, he exuded a mix of poise and swagger, taking Ms Rousseff to task over a kickback scandal involving Petrobras, the state-controlled oil giant mismanaged on Ms Rousseff's watch.
As Mr Balko notes, "Closing a rape or murder case didn't come with a potential kickback to the police department.
In the 1980s allegations that a $50m kickback had been paid on an Indian arms deal by the Swedish firm Bofors engulfed the government of Rajiv Gandhi.But India's entry into the global economy created unprecedented opportunities for dishonesty.
They "disproportionately affect low-income people" and provide a perverse incentive for police to focus on drug-related crimes, which "come with a potential kickback to the police department", rather than rape and murder investigations, which do not.
