bottom-up
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əmˈʌp adjective
of, pertaining to, or originating with the common people, nonprofessionals, or the lower ranks of an organization: The five-day workweek was a bottom-up movement some business leaders and politicians finally supported.
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| bottom-up | |
| —adj | |
| from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top: a bottom-up approach to corporate decision-making | |
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Bottom-up
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
The best way to achieve this is to provide top-down not bottom-up regulation.
What makes these images useful is that they can't be perceived using bottom-up sensory processes.
Policy makers always underestimate the power of the bottom-up quest for dignity, so they are slow to understand what is happening.
Using clever fonts, making toner cartridges last longer and saving paper are all bottom-up ways to cut printing costs.
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