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plough_back

plough back

See also: plow back

English

Verb

plough back (third-person singular simple present ploughs back, present participle ploughing back, simple past and past participle ploughed back)

  1. To reinvest profits into a business
    The dividends were small last year because we ploughed back most of the money to buy new machinery