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bottom line definition - finance
Another way of saying net income. It draws its name from the fact that net income is the bottom line on an income statement.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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