Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Concerned exclusively with costs and profits.
- adjective Ruthlessly realistic; pragmatic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fishing-line stretched on the bottom and having attached to it short lines with hooks.
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Examples
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The bottom-line is that no one cares what you think.
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The bottom-line is that the refusal of libertarians to not recognize the right to be free from racial discrimination in employment or public accommodations is a choice.
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The bottom-line, from a free market perspective, these sorts of deceptions by Paulson and Goldman should not be tolerated.
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The bottom-line is that if the question was asked of me “does rent control decrease the supply of housing” I would probably answer NO.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010
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The bottom-line, from a free market perspective, these sorts of deceptions by Paulson and Goldman should not be tolerated.
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The bottom-line is that our policies regarding stage 1 screening should be geared to make blood emerging after stage 2 testing as safe as possible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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From a corporate bottom-line point of view, things like iTunes sales can make a difference, but ratings matter more in the long run.
Ask Matt: Downton Abbey's Meanies, Remakes, Touch, Grey's Anatomy and More! 2012
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It's hard to believe that sports leaders haven't learned that federal intervention in sports has always been painful -- tarnishing reputations, alienating fans and hurting the bottom-line.
Richard Grenell: Create a Social Security System for Athletes or Face the Feds' Imposed Solution Richard Grenell 2011
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If I spend millions researching the information, discover something juicy, and then the WSJ publishes the bottom-line in a 50 cent print edition, and hundreds of bloggers pick it up for free, how do I recoup my investment?
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But there is no doubt about the bottom-line that discretion, in some form, will sometimes be exercised.
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