ploughing-back
/ˈplaʊɪŋbak/(US plowing-back) Business and Economics
noun
The action of ‘ploughing’ money back in to a business, industry, etc.; the reinvestment of income or profit in the enterprise which produced it.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Political Science Quarterly. From ploughing + back, after to plough back.
- hither
- hither and thither (also hither and yon)
- hither and yon
- hitherto
- hitherward
- hit home
- hit it off
- Hitler, Adolf
- Hitlerian
- Hitlerism
- Hitlerite
- Hitler moustache
- Hitler salute
- hit list
- hitmaker
- hitman
- hit on
- hit (or make) the scene
- hit-or-miss
- hit (or strike) home
- hit-out
- hit parade
- hit single
- hit someone below the belt
- hit someone for six