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.
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