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bottom-liner

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[bot-uhm-lahy-ner] / ˈbɒt əmˈlaɪ nər /

noun

  1. a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.


Etymology

Origin of bottom-liner

bottom line + -er 1

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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