: a person (such as an accountant) whose attention is focused on profits and losses : a person who is chiefly or solely concerned with the financial bottom line
… at 7 P.M. every weekday in the New York City area … "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour" gets its audience and "Hard Copy" gets its audience. What the network bottom-liners cannot ignore is how many more "Hard Copy" fans there are.—Walter Goodman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 1994
One of Murdock's first acts was to phase out pineapple production; his bottom-liners noted that it cost about $100 a day to pay a pineapple worker on Lanai, compared with only $3.50 in Taiwan.—Peter Collier, Audubon, January 1995
They weren't yet jaded by budget constraints, reality checks, and bottom-liners with no imagination.—Kristin D. Zeit, Healthcare Design, August 2012
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