line item

American  

noun

1. the distinct title of an entry or account as it appears on a separate line in a bookkeeping ledger or a fiscal budget.

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Other Word Forms

• line-item
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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line item

Agents noted that Navatek may have ghostwritten the technical description that accompanied this line item because “an almost identical paragraph” appeared in Hartman’s internal spreadsheets two months before the Senate report became public.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

For now, cyberattacks have become an unusual line item at Braham’s latest city council meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The line item “other income”, referring to gains in equity investments in other companies, popped up again and again in recent earnings reports.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Collins believes the line item encompasses private companies Nvidia has invested in, such as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI, which was acquired by SpaceX.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

How many people were actually listening to what he was going to say, or were they there for the experi- ence and another line item on a resume?

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

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