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bottom line

noun

  1. the last line of a financial statement, used for showing net profit or loss.
  2. net profit or loss.
  3. the deciding or crucial factor.
  4. the ultimate result; outcome.


bottom line

noun

  1. the last line of a financial statement that shows the net profit or loss of a company or organization
  2. the final outcome of a process, discussion, etc
  3. the most important or fundamental aspect of a situation
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bottom line

  1. The last line in an audit , which shows profit or loss.
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Notes

“Bottom line†also has a derogatory implication when it refers to those people whose attention to the bottom line prevents them from recognizing the value of anything else.
By extension, “bottom line†refers to the final, determining consideration in a decision.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bottom line1

First recorded in 1965–70
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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.
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Nike is already facing a tight bottom line.

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“These offers are really important for their bottom line.â€

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Shareholders embraced the business case because there was no murky morality involved; it simply focused on the bottom line.

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Any collective impact on Amazon’s bottom line is so far too small to show up meaningfully on any of the company's earnings reports — in fact, net sales were up 10% last quarter.

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The bottom line of Athens last Thursday was, indeed, amazing, but there were warning signs.

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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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