英语词汇“to plough back”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To plough plant material into (an area of ground) to enrich the soil; to plough in (plant material). Also intransitive.

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1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 291 The fallows are broken up in the autumn.., ploughed back in spring, then twice across, and bouted in 27-inch ridges.

1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 23 July 3/2 Last fall it was too dry to plough back for wheat.

1949 Econ. Geogr. 25 204/2 Remnants are ploughed back into the soil which helps to maintain a high humus content.

2002 Farmers Guardian (Nexis) 20 Sept. 85 The first relies on grazing typical improved upland pasture—it was ploughed back in 1985 and reseeded with ryegrass.

2. transitive. figurative. To invest (income or profit) back into the enterprise producing it.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > invest > in specific way

to lock up1692

to tie up1822

to plough back1912

to put back1912

1912 N.Y. Times 10 July 12/3 The management did not embrace the first opportunity to increase the payment on its shares. Instead, the surplus was plowed back into the property, as railroad men say.

1930 Economist 24 May 1172/2 The extensive resort of American managements to the practice of ‘ploughing back earnings into the business’ further emphasises this tendency.

1976 Milton Keynes Express 30 July 11/4 He would not consider ploughing some of the £4 million back into the services and said he hoped the kitty would increase.

1992 D. Glazer Last Oasis 7 Oh, they don't pay me, he'd said, I just have to ask if I want anything—everything has to be ploughed back into the business.

单词	to plough back
释义	> as lemmas to plough back to plough back 1. transitive. To plough plant material into (an area of ground) to enrich the soil; to plough in (plant material). Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 291 The fallows are broken up in the autumn.., ploughed back in spring, then twice across, and bouted in 27-inch ridges. 1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 23 July 3/2 Last fall it was too dry to plough back for wheat. 1949 Econ. Geogr. 25 204/2 Remnants are ploughed back into the soil which helps to maintain a high humus content. 2002 Farmers Guardian (Nexis) 20 Sept. 85 The first relies on grazing typical improved upland pasture—it was ploughed back in 1985 and reseeded with ryegrass. 2. transitive. figurative. To invest (income or profit) back into the enterprise producing it. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > invest > in specific way to lock up1692 to tie up1822 to plough back1912 to put back1912 1912 N.Y. Times 10 July 12/3 The management did not embrace the first opportunity to increase the payment on its shares. Instead, the surplus was plowed back into the property, as railroad men say. 1930 Economist 24 May 1172/2 The extensive resort of American managements to the practice of ‘ploughing back earnings into the business’ further emphasises this tendency. 1976 Milton Keynes Express 30 July 11/4 He would not consider ploughing some of the £4 million back into the services and said he hoped the kitty would increase. 1992 D. Glazer Last Oasis 7 Oh, they don't pay me, he'd said, I just have to ask if I want anything—everything has to be ploughed back into the business. extracted from ploughplowv. < as lemmas
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