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plow·back

 (plou′băk′)
n.
1. Reinvestment of profits in the business that earned them.
2. An amount of profits thus reinvested.
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plow•back

(ˈplaʊˌbæk)

n.
a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
[1945–50]
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Recto said there was a proposal from an agency in the government's economic cluster to limit to P10 billion a year the plowback to farmers 'even if duties collected from imported rice are double or triple that amount.'
The companies' worldwide plowback percentage was 54 per cent during 2008-12 while the US recorded the highest level at 123 per cent and Europe the lowest at 31 per cent.
These were the funds that came to be called the "plowback" funds.
P/E = the fundamental price-earnings ratio, g = expected growth rate of earnings per share, ROE = return on equity, g/ROE = b = plowback ratio (retention ratio), (1-g/ROE) = (1--b) = payout ratio,
SGR represents the sustainable growth rate, which we calculate as the product of return on equity and plowback ratio.
For general and limited partners, these bonuses did not represent pure income: General partners had a mandatory plowback ratio of 80 percent while that of limited partners was lower.
It is highly unlikely that he would have been able to bring all the companies into line to make good on his offer of a total plowback of profits into research and development.
'A 100-percent plowback rate will guarantee that the government will not be tempted to use the taxes collected to shore up its fiscal position,' Recto said.