upshot

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Presumed from up- + shot, referring to the last shot in a match of archery.

That's the upshot of all that was said." — The Coming Wave; Or, The Hidden Treasure of High Rock, Oliver Optic
So there was the final upshot of my politics! — Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson
And the upshot of it was that he wanted money. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue

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