bottom-up

American  

[bot-uhm--uhp] / ˈbɒt əm ˈʌp /

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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.

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bottom-up British  

adjective

1. from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top

   a bottom-up approach to corporate decision-making

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Etymology

Origin of bottom-up

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

Example Sentences

The bottom-up understanding of the manager, strategy, and risk you’re taking and how that risk relates to other risks in your portfolio, is hugely important.

From Barron's

To be sure, this bottom-up number is notably more optimistic than the median from investment-bank forecasts collected by MarketWatch, which stands at 7,500.

From MarketWatch

Elsewhere, countries with fragile currencies are seeing bottom-up adoption.

From MarketWatch

Built through a bottom-up molecular engineering strategy, they combine tightly controlled size with a defined number of surface ligands to create a multivalent platform with highly specific interactions at cellular receptors.

From Science Daily

On the other hand, people who are a little bit below that level, they might feel a bit squished between bottom-up and top-down pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal

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