Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Final issue; conclusion; end; consummation: as, the upshot of the matter.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
Etymologies
- Earlier upshot, the last shot in an archery contest.
Examples
“Its main upshot is that everyone knows their height and weight, and can quickly calculate a BMI, while the main downside is that you need a pretty typical frame with a typical fat-muscle-organ breakdown and whatnot.”
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
“That suggests you might get a few more decades of Flynn Effect by improving those factors for the poor, but in the long term the upshot is going to be the same if the fertility gap holds.”
“The upshot is more than anything else you will just somewhat close the spreads between treasuries and riskier securities.”
“The upshot is you can stop worrying about philosophical “problems” and also you can have fun refuting classical philosophical arguments.”
“The upshot is that inventory restocking obviously was a big contributor, but this was nonetheless a moderately good report.”
“The upshot is that the urban electorate has passed the rural electorate in size, and the suburban electorate is also associating itself more with the urban electorate.”
“But the upshot is that it can easily be the case that there are only 49 or fewer Senators personally better off with a 50-vote cutoff in any given period. dan says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Ben Nelson Reminisces About When People Cares What He Thinks
“So the upshot is that regulation, not liquidationism, is the only known way to deal with banking crises, and mass nationalizations would have made the political climate in which we try to re-regulate the banks much worse, not better.”
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Turning Pro-Bank Stance Into Big Bucks
“So the upshot is households have been backing down their debt and other financial obligations, but we still have a bit of a mortgage problem.”
“So the upshot is that you might well want to pay attention to what the Austrians are saying about credit (but not politics) during the expansionary part of the cycle.”
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Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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