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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bottom line
noun
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▪ He figured the currency hedge cost Tomkins 4 million pounds on its bottom line in the first half.
▪ The bottom line for city officials: Be kind to your current employers.
▪ The bottom line is, there is no stake in anyone legitimizing campaign financing.
▪ The are leaving your firms as a result and that is affecting your bottom line.
▪ The new mercenaries are independent firms with their own bottom line.
▪ What keeps the propliners of the world still going as viable business propositions is an item known as the bottom line.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bottom line

figurative sense is attested from 1967, from profit and loss accounting, where the final figure after both are calculated is the bottom line on the page. Also (especially as an adjective) bottomline.

Wiktionary
bottom line

n. 1 (context accounting English) The final balance; the amount of money or profit left after everything has been tallied. 2 (context idiomatic uncountable English) The summary or result; the most important information; the upshot; the net-net.

WordNet
bottom line

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

  2. the decisive point

Wikipedia
Bottom line (disambiguation)

Bottom line may refer to:

  • Bottom line mentality
  • The Bottom Line, a student-run print and online newspaper at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  • ESPN BottomLine, the trademark for a lower-third sports information ticker graphic
  • The bottom line, or net income, the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue
  • The catchphrase of wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin
    • WWE Bottom Line, a World Wrestling Entertainment syndicated television show whose name came from the aforementioned catchphrase
  • Bottom Line Publications, a branch of Boardroom, Inc., publishers of certain newsletters
  • The Bottom Line (radio programme), a business discussion program on BBC Radio 4
  • The Bottom Line (television series), an Australian leadership discussion television programme on Channel Nine
  • The Bottom Line, an American cable television program
  • Double bottom line, a business term used in socially responsible enterprise and investment
  • Triple bottom line, a business term used in measuring organizational (and societal) success: economic, environmental and social
  • The Bottomline with Boy Abunda, a talkshow program in the Philippines on ABS-CBN
  • In horse breeding, the "tail-female" line of descent (traced only through females), reflecting that line's position at the bottom of tabulated pedigrees
  • The Bottom Line (venue), an intimate performance concert venue in New York City's Greenwich Village from 1974 to 2004
  • BLUF (communication), an abbreviation for "bottom line up front"
  • The Bottom Line, a Slovenian online investigative media
Bottom Line (album)

Bottom Line is an album by British bluesman John Mayall with various musicians. Along with No More Interviews it is one of only two Mayall albums that has never been released on CD.

Usage examples of "bottom line".

But the bottom line is that right here and now, you can't do anything about those.

The bottom line was that less than half the equipment requested for Terran Forces would be available before the invasion.

Still, the bottom line was that Peters, a cop of many years' experience, had made some highly negative comments about the applicant I was investigating.

Now you can dismiss the research at Lawrence Berkeley all you want, but the bottom line is that I would be making the same recommendations to Atheon I’.

Grant entered the pertinent numbers a dozen different ways before he gave up hoping that the bottom line would change.