单词 | ploughing-back |
释义 | ploughing-backplowing-backn. Business and Economics. The action of ‘ploughing’ money back in to a business, industry, etc.; the reinvestment of income or profit in the enterprise which produced it. Cf. ploughback n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > other types of investing or investment perpetual1833 fundholding1835 capital investment1842 floating1888 flotation1889 carried interest1908 ethical investment1915 National Savings1919 locking up1924 ploughing-back1924 foreign portfolio investment1951 inward investment1962 round-tripping1973 short-termism1986 1924 Polit. Sci. Q. 39 511 His ‘ploughing back’ of surplus earnings to increase capacity and to reduce prices is an evolutionary development. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xii. 130 This compulsory ploughing-back of any excess profits is essential if the development of the area is to proceed at a reasonable rate. 1978 W. W. Rostow World Econ. xi. 121 Industrial capital..was initially mobilized privately and subsequent investment financed mainly from the plowing back of profits. 2002 N.Z. Econ. Papers (Nexis) 1 Dec. 177 The national accounts data appear to rule out direct reinvestment as a major ‘absorber’ of the investment income debit, except for a brief spell of plowing-back during the early-mid 1990s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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