to put any profits made by a business back into it in order to make it more successful
All the money we raise is ploughed back into our work.
It's being ploughed back into the business, it seems.
Most of the profits, it said, had been ploughed back into defence programmes.
Once its costs are taken care of, any surplus is ploughed back into the business.
The rest of their profits, an overwhelming sum of money in good times, had to be ploughed back into the business.
ploughs back
ploughing back
ploughed back
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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