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bottom-liner
[ bot-uhm-lahy-ner ]
noun
- a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bottom-liner1
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Example Sentences
Getty, who died in 1976 at age 83, simply emerges as a supremely selfish man and a consummate bottom-liner who subjected all his passions to cost analysis.
Although he loved the glamour and glitz of films�Hirschfield once broke his toe tripping over the edge of a Jacuzzi while staring at Actress Polly Bergen�he was, as colleagues observed, a classic "bottom-liner" who frowned on peccadilloes like theft and forgery.
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