- Ploughed Back
- Earnings that are reinvested in the company and not distributed to shareholders as dividends.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
Ploughed Back
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ploughed-back profits — See: retained earnings … Accounting dictionary
ploughed-back profits — See retained earnings … Big dictionary of business and management
plough back — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms plough back : present tense I/you/we/they plough back he/she/it ploughs back present participle ploughing back past tense ploughed back past participle ploughed back to put any profits made by a business back… … English dictionary
plough back — (figurative) To reinvest (profits of a business) in that business • • • Main Entry: ↑plough * * * ˌplough ˈback [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they plough back … Useful english dictionary
plough back — PHRASAL VERB: usu passive If profits are ploughed back into a business, they are used to increase the size of the business or to improve it. [be V ed P into n] About 70 per cent of its profits are being ploughed back into the investment programme … English dictionary
plough sth back in/plough sth back into sth — UK US plough sth back in/plough sth back into sth Phrasal Verb with plough({{}}UK (US plow) /plaʊ/ verb ► to spend the money that a business has earned on improving that business: »Profits are being ploughed back into the company to allow… … Financial and business terms
plough sth back in — UK US plough sth back in/plough sth back into sth Phrasal Verb with plough({{}}UK (US plow) /plaʊ/ verb ► to spend the money that a business has earned on improving that business: »Profits are being ploughed back into the company to allow… … Financial and business terms
plough sth back into sth — UK US plough sth back in/plough sth back into sth Phrasal Verb with plough({{}}UK (US plow) /plaʊ/ verb ► to spend the money that a business has earned on improving that business: »Profits are being ploughed back into the company to allow… … Financial and business terms
plough — 1 usuallly plow AmE noun (C) 1 a large piece of farm equipment used to turn over the earth so that seeds can be planted 2 under the plough used for growing crops 3 the Plough especially BrE the group of seven bright stars seen only from the… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
plough — /plaʊ / (say plow) noun 1. an agricultural implement for cutting and turning over the soil. 2. any of various implements resembling this, as a plane for cutting grooves or a device for snow clearance. 3. a device on a tram, formerly used for… …
