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carry back

verb

tr, adverb to apply (a legally permitted credit, esp an operating loss) to the taxable income of previous years in order to ease the overall tax burden

Return rather to your own country, even if you have to carry back some of the goods you have brought.

I will carry back ten thousand of their champions, chained in pairs, to make sport for my fickle people here in Babylon.

Let all the men in the front of this crowd carry back their guns and stack them at the rear.

This was the definite fact which Matt could carry back with him to Northwick's family, and this they knew already.

I had come above three hundred miles on purpose to get a cayman uninjured, and not to carry back a mutilated specimen.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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