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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.

Wikidata

  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. Tom Robbins:

    The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  2. American Civil Liberties Union:

    This is important because it shows that Hofeller's work formed the basis for DOJ's request to add the citizenship question, the bottom line is the Trump administration doesn't deny that portions of its first draft of a request to add a citizenship question to the census were written by Thomas Hofeller, who advocated for the question because it would be, in Thomas Hofeller own words,' advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,'.

  3. Jacob Kirkegaard:

    The bottom line is the debt will not be repaid in International Monetary Fund lifetime, international Monetary Fund is gearing up for new clients in the emerging economies. International Monetary Fund is not best done by being soft on Greece. International Monetary Fund won't go to the( International Monetary Fund) board to approve participation in a third Greek bailout without something International Monetary Fund think is tough and credible.

  4. Kathryn Spletstoser:

    The bottom line is he lied about sexually assaulting me. He did it. He did it multiple times.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    The bottom line is, there's been this disturbing pattern the last couple of weeks of Ted Cruz saying things that are not true. Just in the last week, he's lied about my record on marriage. He's lied about my record on Planned Parenthood. Of course he lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. Last night Donald Trump says he's issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him. And then he also isn't telling the truth about immigration.


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