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bottom-up

[ bot-uhm--uhp ]

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adjective

of, relating to, or originating with the common people, nonprofessionals, or the lower ranks of an organization:
The five-day workweek was a bottom-up movement that business leaders and politicians finally supported.
organized or proceeding from smaller, more detailed units to the larger, more general structure:
His bottom-up approach to research involves immersing himself in communities to better understand the lives of local entrepreneurs.

bottom-up

from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
a bottom-up approach to corporate decision-making

First recorded in 1930–35 as an adjective and in 1890–95 as an adverb, both deriving from the phrase “from the bottom up ”

The other is mainly bottom-up and rooted in communities of color.

He plans to build his artificial brain from entirely the bottom up, starting at the molecular level.

But the bottom-up, community-centered union model that the CTU exemplifies refutes those claims.

Now, because of bottom-up sources like Sina Weibo, this fundamental balance was starting to shift.

As dependency on D.C. wells from the bottom up, it grows ever more fashionable from the top down.

At last he distinguished that it must either be a whale asleep, or a boat bottom up.

Thither we dragged the canoe, and turned it bottom up, intending to creep in below it when we retired to rest.

In half an hour a thing rode by the watcher on the sands and fell with a crash beside him—a boat bottom up: his son's.

The Hogue turned turtle very quickly—in about five minutes—and floated bottom up for several minutes.

I consider it was thirty-five to forty-five minutes from the time she was struck till she was bottom up.

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