throwback

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A reversion to an earlier stage of development.

   • The man from the future where technology makes all things possible is a throwback to our glorious industrial past, before America stagnated and stopped producing anything but rules, restrictions, limits, obstacles and Facebook.
   • My next train is a throwback to earlier times. TfW is now the only operator of the old single-car Class 153s (apart from a handful of ScotRail bike-carrying conversions), and a pair of them have turned up to take me to Carmarthen.
2. 2

   A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.

3. 3

   An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.

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   1. 4

      An atavism.

   2. 5

      A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

   3. 6

      A person or thing that evokes memories.

      • It’s tempting to dismiss the 15-person outfit as out of touch. But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that’s nostalgia. Throwback tech is all the rage these days.
   4. 7

      A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the…

      A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

      • Under the throwback rule, sales into a state where the taxpayer is not taxable are “thrown back” from the destination state to the origin state by adding the nontaxable sales to the numerator in the apportionment factor.
      • Attributing the gross receipts to the Member State of origin (i.e. applying a throwback rule) constitutes a benefit for that state that is not justified by the rationale of the gross receipts factor.

The neighborhood

• neighborthrow back