dot point

dot point

English

Noun

dot point (plural dot points)

1. (Australia, informal) An item in a bulleted list.

   Synonym: bullet point

   • 2010, Mark Tredinnick, Geoff Whyte, The Little Black Book of Business Writing, page 159:

     Dot points work well when

     • each dot is a short phrase or clause (like this)
     • each one runs no longer than this (try to keep each point from run-
       ning over a line, like this)

     […]

     But different rules apply when each dot point is a sentence or a paragraph—when, in other words, it stands on its own grammatically.