Word.ws English Dictionary

line item

line item noun: an item appearing on a single line in any schedule of information.

Noun

line item (plural line items)

  1. An item appearing on a single line in any schedule of information.
  2. An item of revenue or expenditure in a budget or other financial statement or report.
  3. A budget appropriation.
  4. (logistics) One item on an order, regardless of quantity.

Forms of line item

pluralline items

Words formed from line item

Questions about line item

What does line item mean?
Line item means an item appearing on a single line in any schedule of information.
What part of speech is line item?
Line item is a noun.
What is the plural of line item?
The plural of line item is line items.

Words near line item in the dictionary

  1. line integral
  2. line integrals
  3. Line Islander
  4. Line Islanders
  5. Line Islands
  6. line item
  7. line items
  8. line judge
  9. line judges
  10. line lock
  11. line locks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: line item (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “line item.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/line_item. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.