CARRY BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carry back mean? 

• CARRY BACK (verb)
  The verb CARRY BACK has 1 sense:

1. deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period

  Familiarity information: CARRY BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARRY BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "carry back" is one way to...):

deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Pace out the distances with a wand at every five score, and do you, Arnaud, stand at the fifth wand to carry back my bolts to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To see him walking like a comic opera Sultan, with this badge of authority in his hand, his black beard bristling in front of him, his toes pointing at each step, and a train of wide-eyed Indian girls behind him, clad in their slender drapery of bark cloth, is one of the most grotesque of all the pictures which I will carry back with me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next bustle brought in Mr. Campbell, the surgeon of the Thrush, a very well-behaved young man, who came to call for his friend, and for whom there was with some contrivance found a chair, and with some hasty washing of the young tea-maker's, a cup and saucer; and after another quarter of an hour of earnest talk between the gentlemen, noise rising upon noise, and bustle upon bustle, men and boys at last all in motion together, the moment came for setting off; everything was ready, William took leave, and all of them were gone; for the three boys, in spite of their mother's entreaty, determined to see their brother and Mr. Campbell to the sally-port; and Mr. Price walked off at the same time to carry back his neighbour's newspaper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Even Challenger was ready to admit that we should then have done all for which we had come, and that our first duty from that time onwards was to carry back to civilization the amazing discoveries we had made.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)