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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bottom linenoun

    the last line in an audit; the line that shows profit or loss

  2. bottom linenoun

    the decisive point

Wiktionary

  1. bottom linenoun

    The final balance; the amount of money or profit left after everything has been tallied.

  2. bottom linenoun

    The summary or result; the most important information; the upshot; the net-net.

  3. Etymology: A reference to the literal bottom line of an income statement or other accounting record.

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  1. bottom line

    The bottom line refers to the final total in a financial transaction, profit and loss statement, or balance sheet. It typically represents the net income, which is revenues minus expenses, interest and taxes. It can also be used more broadly to refer to the final or most important point in a discussion or situation.

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  1. Bottom Line

    The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West Fourth Street between Mercer Street and Greene Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. During 1970s and 1980s the club was a major space for small-scale popular music performances.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bottom line in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bottom line in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bottom line in a Sentence

  1. Javier Cazares:

    Being the person in charge, she should've made sure that school was safe, and she failed at her job -- bottom line. It goes to show you how Uvalde works : They will do anything to protect themselves and forget the children, no one wants to be responsible for their actions and inaction, and it makes me sick.

  2. Paul Dergarabedian:

    Were on the right track now. It shows when youre this early in the year, any change can make a significant difference to the bottom line, but its going to take more than one big movie to start us toward another record-breaking year in North America.

  3. Secretary Frank Kendall:

    The bottom line is that willfully disobeying a lawful order is incompatible with military service and to get a vaccination is a lawful order.

  4. Ali Noorani:

    We need to be talking about the future of immigration with the bottom-line self-interest of Americans who want to retire in mind.

  5. Assemblyman Rocky Chvez:

    The real problem is that it takes 5.7 years to get a college degree, which is costing students additional money, the change should be to ensure that students graduate in four years. The bottom line is that we ca n’t throw money into a system that needs to be revamped.


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