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bottom line
noun
- the last line of a financial statement, used for showing net profit or loss.
- net profit or loss.
- the deciding or crucial factor.
- the ultimate result; outcome.
bottom line
noun
- the last line of a financial statement that shows the net profit or loss of a company or organization
- the final outcome of a process, discussion, etc
- the most important or fundamental aspect of a situation
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- bottom-line adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bottom line1
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Idioms and Phrases
The ultimate result, the upshot; also, the main point or crucial factor. For example, The bottom line is that the chairman wants to dictate all of the board's decisions , or Whether or not he obeyed the law is the bottom line . This is an accounting term that refers to the earnings figures that appear on the bottom (last) line of a statement. It began to be transferred to other contexts in the mid-1900s.Discover More
Example Sentences
Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
Israeli elections means a time out And that brings us to the bottom line.
It seems to me that we are dealing with more than bottom-line economics and bottom-squeezing ergonomics.
Bottom line is we should expect to hear Sunday that the grand jury has not indicted Wilson.
The bottom line is that Ebola is terrible and the world is not doing enough.
The altered die has the three vertical lines, but the horizontal lines are omitted to the point where the bottom line begins.
The bottom line, being nearest to the centre of the circle, is now shorter than the centre line.
Page 263, after the word insects (bottom line of note), add, but the whole marking is suggestive of distastefulness.
In like manner, the totals in the bottom line are all equivalent to percentages since 100 buds of each parent tree were used.
Our plan will improve the bottom line for more than 23 million small businesses.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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