bottom-up
adjective
bot·tom-up
ˈbä-təm-ˈəp 
: progressing upward from the lowest levels (as of a stratified organization or system)
bottom-up management
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In contrast, education freedom is a bottom-up reform that can reverse declining test scores by moving students into better learning environments and ensuring tax dollars go to actual educational activities.
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
But his comix are best understood as a bottom-up effort to return a neutered art form—one that afforded him untrammeled fantasy as a kid—to a place of illegitimacy and anarchy, shame and desire, surplus and oblivion.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
This is the bottom-up part of President Trump’s effort -- led by Elon Musk and DOGE -- to pare back the federal workforce and the administrative state.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Finding ‘bottom-up opportunities’ in defensive stocks GQG has picked up more shares of defensive plays Philip Morris , AT & T and Progressive as volatility crept into the market.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
But his comix are best understood as a bottom-up effort to return a neutered art form—one that afforded him untrammeled fantasy as a kid—to a place of illegitimacy and anarchy, shame and desire, surplus and oblivion.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
This is the bottom-up part of President Trump’s effort -- led by Elon Musk and DOGE -- to pare back the federal workforce and the administrative state.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Finding ‘bottom-up opportunities’ in defensive stocks GQG has picked up more shares of defensive plays Philip Morris , AT & T and Progressive as volatility crept into the market.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bottom-up
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“Bottom-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom-up. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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