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to plough back
[phrase form: plough]
01
to reinvest profits into a business to improve or expand it
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
action verb
regular
separable
particle
back
base verb
plough
present tense
plough back
3rd person singular
ploughs back
present participle
ploughing back
past simple
ploughed back
past participle
ploughed back
Examples
They ploughed the earnings back into new machinery to increase production.
