line item

1. 1.

   an item in an appropriation bill

   “Some governors can veto line items in their state budgets”

   Broaderitem

   Part ofappropriation bill

Questions about line item

What does line item mean?

line item means "an item in an appropriation bill".

Is line item a common word?

line item is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.