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bottom-of-the-harbour

bottom-of-the-harbour is the alternative form of bottom of the harbour.

Meaning of bottom of the harbour

Noun

bottom of the harbour (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, attributive) A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s.
    • The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again.1982 June 5, Sydney Morning Herald, page 13

Questions about bottom-of-the-harbour

What is bottom-of-the-harbour the alternative form of?
Bottom-of-the-harbour is the alternative form of bottom of the harbour.

Words near bottom-of-the-harbour in the dictionary

  1. bottom-line
  2. bottom-lined
  3. bottom-lines
  4. bottom-lining
  5. bottom-most
  6. bottom-of-the-harbour
  7. bottom-of-the-line
  8. bottom-post
  9. bottom-posted
  10. bottom-poster
  11. bottom-posters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottom-of-the-harbour (page history and authors); bottom of the harbour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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