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plough money

plough money noun: money that has been paid for the right of ploughing.

Noun

plough money (countable and uncountable, plural plough moneys)

  1. (historical) Money that has been paid for the right of ploughing.
  2. (historical) Money that has been collected by a ploughboy on Plough Monday.

Verb

plough money (third-person singular simple present ploughs money, present participle ploughing money, simple past and past participle ploughed money)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To invest money in a project or endeavor, especially to help it succeed or earn more money.

Forms of plough money

Noun
pluralplough moneys
Verb
third-person singular presentploughs money
present participleploughing money
past participleploughed money
pastploughed money

Questions about plough money

What does plough money mean?
Plough money means money that has been paid for the right of ploughing.
What part of speech is plough money?
Plough money can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of plough money?
The plural of plough money is plough moneys.

Words near plough money in the dictionary

  1. plough iron
  2. plough irons
  3. plough jockey
  4. plough jockeys
  5. Plough Monday
  6. plough money
  7. plough moneys
  8. plough on
  9. plough one's own furrow
  10. plough one's way
  11. plough over

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