Synonyms for line item
line item

Princeton's WordNet

1. line itemnoun

   an item in an appropriation bill

   "Some governors can veto line items in their state budgets"

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1. Iraq Bush:

   Sure, I think that in Washington during my brother's time Republicans spent too much money, he could have used the veto power. He didn't have line item veto power, but he could have brought budget discipline to Washington, D.C.

2. Boris Johnson:

   One column a week was absorbing enough money to pay for what, five reporters ? the constant history of the Telegraph over the last 15 years has been cuts to editorial because the owners are insistent the company had to hit the profit target, And yet you've also got him sitting in the middle of your budget, this line item of £ 275,000 per year for one column a week.

3. John Boardman:

   Our industry is one of first line items in business budgets to get cut and generally the last line item added back into a budget when things are getting better, right now, it's anybody's guess as to what we look like this summer or in the fall.

4. Chris Christie:

   Senator Rubio said he was opposed to it, yet he did not show up to speak on the floor, he didn't show up to cast his vote. When you're governor of New Jersey and you don't like spending, you use the line item veto, and you make the argument to people. You show up and you get the job done.

5. Michael McCaul:

   I wrote to the President recently as part of my ongoing investigation and raised concerns that we have no lead agency in charge of countering domestic radicalization and no line item for it in the budgets of key departments and agencies, i am also concerned that the few programs we do have in place are far too small to confront a challenge that has grown so quickly.