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bottom-of-the-line

[ bot-uhm-uhv-thuh-lahyn ]

adjective

  1. being the cheapest item of its kind made by a manufacturer; produced as inexpensively as possible ( top-of-the-line ):

    bottom-of-the-line merchandise that has no warranty.



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Example Sentences

We also didn’t want to buy the bottom-of-the-line $30 stroller made of two metal sticks and a nylon sling.

Eager to fit in, I begged for a pair of hockey skates—bottom-of-the-line Bauer Black Panthers—and in the winter of 1977-78, one of the coldest in Iowa history, made my way to Lake Cona Toma.

The trend enables a "large number of new, young chefs who can come to market less expensively," says Zagat, presenting this calculus: A food truck in New York may run $30,000 to purchase and outfit, while a "bottom-of-the-line" brick-and-mortar restaurant would cost at least $250,000 "and probably a lot more than that."

From US News

According to the Shriftman, the bottom-of-the-line fixed gear bikes retail from $800 to $1,000—putting them largely out of the price reach for most college students.

From Inc

The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia.

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