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plough back

plough back is the alternative form of plow back.

Meaning of plow back

Verb

plow back (third-person singular simple present plows back, present participle plowing back, simple past and past participle plowed back)

  1. To reinvest profits into a business.
    • The dividends were small last year because we plowed back most of the money to buy new machinery

Forms of plough back

third-person singular presentploughs back
present participleploughing back
past participleploughed back
pastploughed back

Questions about plough back

What is plough back the alternative form of?
Plough back is the alternative form of plow back.

Words near plough back in the dictionary

  1. Plouffe
  2. Plouffes
  3. plough
  4. plough a lonely furrow
  5. plough ahead
  6. plough back
  7. plough down
  8. plough in
  9. plough into
  10. plough iron
  11. plough irons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plough back (page history and authors); plow back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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