line item
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈlaɪn ˈaɪtəm/
- Specialized
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partida
- Why on earth, you might ask, is there a line item in the proposal for message development?
- line item in the budget
- specific line items
- total of line items
And then at the bottom of the first page there's a line item and it said assignment fee.
- And then at the bottom of the first page there's a line item and it said assignment fee.
- My wife and I added that to our line item of expenses, the same as gifts, charity.
- So as we're getting loan quotes, I mean, on our Dallas deal that we just did last week, there was a COVID line item said COVID, COVID reserve.
- You'd save a shit load of money and two, Healthcare is your second largest line item expense after payroll.
- And then COVID hit and I hired a financial analyst and we've spent all these months going through every single cent, every line item, every process.
- But every one of these line items is an Nvme device timing out.
- So, you know, there's all these things that make up your expense line item on whatever it is that you own or buy.
Examples
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Financial statements usually contain line items that extend to several lines.
Academic text (2005) -
President Clinton should use the line-item veto to strike this item from the new law.
Academic text (1996) -
What were some of the line items that quickly helped people to select out?
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That was line item number two.
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The plan should include these costs even if the line item is outside of the school library budget.
Academic text (2013) -
Interest rate payments are now the third biggest line item that the government has that's going to keep growing.
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And then at the bottom of the first page there's a line item and it said assignment fee.
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Ninety-one percent of the respondents presented bad debt expense as a separate line item in the income statement.
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They're going to be the biggest line item payroll on your P&L, your largest investment, in other words, and they're also going to be the greatest source of pain.
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The budget report lists each expense, clearly showing each line item for better tracking.
Synonyms
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A record in a company's books that shows money going in or out
A written record in a company's books that shows one financial transaction
How Comprehensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an individual entry in a list or budget' is directly derivable from combining 'line' (a row or division in a document) with 'item' (a distinct unit in a list). This noun-noun composition follows regular English compounding patterns and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun line item comes from old lists and bills where each charge was written on its own line as a separate item. So a line item means 'an individual entry' in a bill or budget, listed separately.