PLOUGH INTO


Meaning of PLOUGH INTO in English

1.

If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.

A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.

PHRASAL VERB : V P n

2.

If you say that money is ploughed into something such as a business or a service, you are emphasizing that the amount of money which is invested in it or spent on it in order to improve it is very large. ( BUSINESS )

Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east...

He claimed he ploughed all his money into his antique business.

PHRASAL VERB : be V-ed P n / -ing , V n P n / -ing [ emphasis ]

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