ALL meanings of boil down to
boil down to
B b - phrasal verb boil down to If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it. 3
- noun boil down to to be the essential element in something 3
- noun boil down to to summarize; reduce to essentials 3
- noun boil down to to mean, when summarized; amount to 3
- transitivephrasal verb boil down to be essentially 1