bottom line
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- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəm laɪn/
- Specialized
- Both types of groups are able to deliver a positive bottom line.
- the financial bottom line
- the company's bottom line
- look at the bottom line
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Watch on YouTubeAnd when the income goes down, then obviously the bottom line goes down.
- And when the income goes down, then obviously the bottom line goes down.
- They use our important content to feed their bottom line and they simply just don't care about us.
- All of these things are good for a company's bottom line.
- They should have excess like space, but that would hurt the bottom line.
- The top line is perceived value, the middle line is the price you charge, and the bottom line is the cost.
- We want to but you know, when the funding starts to dry up, when you you know, you have to pay the rent in a certain way and and, and your bottom line is, is profit.
- What's, what's the amount of cost to those banks that they're trying to move to the merchants and thus drop to the bank's bottom line?
- And they're doing it for the bottom line, not just to get moral cookies.
- The companies that Andrew Tay is spreading his speech on have a bottom line to hit.
Examples
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"The result can have a huge impact on a company's bottom line," he says.
Academic text (1998) -
Every year the company grows its bottom line by M dollars.
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And when the income goes down, then obviously the bottom line goes down.
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How might she help other family members gain training that could improve their financial bottom line?
Academic text (2015) -
The social workers who remain must do more with less, with an eye on the bottom line.
Academic text (2008) -
Because these global issues increasingly impact business, not engaging with them can hurt the bottom line.
Academic text (2008) -
Issued on 8 April, the fiscal 1994 budget has a bottom line of $1.5 trillion.
Academic text (1994) -
Most restaurants also make an effort to conserve energy because "it's good for the bottom line."
Academic text (2009) -
For the companies making these investments, the Caspian energy boom has always been about the bottom line.
Academic text (2000) -
In the last quarter, our bottom line showed a significant improvement, indicating higher profits than expected.
Synonyms
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Money left after paying all costs and taxes
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Money a person or business keeps after paying costs and taxes
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Money left after paying all costs, taxes, and other charges
How Profitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is partly compositional: 'bottom' (lowest) + 'line' evokes the total shown at the bottom of an account, so a learner who knows the words can often infer the financial sense. However, the metaphorical extension to 'the most important outcome' and the reliance on accounting/layout conventions are not fully predictable for a B1 learner without prior exposure, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Bottom line comes from accounting, where the final number on the bottom line of a sheet shows the company's total 'profit or loss'. Because that last number shows the real result, the phrase now also means that final financial outcome.