BOTTOM-UP | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of bottom-up in English bottom-upadjective uk /ˌbɒt.əmˈʌp/ us /ˌbɑː.t̬əmˈʌp/ Add to word list Add to word list considering the smaller or less important parts or details of a plan, organization, etc. first: bottom-up approach a bottom-up approach to building a successful company Opposite top-down Plans and arrangements

• accommodation
• appointed
• arrangement
• arranger
• backstop
• blueprint
• design
• done
• exit strategy
• formulation
• game plan
• lock
• non-programme
• package deal
• party line
• plan of action
• planning
• policymaker
• preparation
• walk-in

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bottom-up | Business English

bottom-upadjective [ before noun ]   MANAGEMENT uk /ˌbɒtəmˈʌp/ us /ˈbɑːṱ-/ Add to word list Add to word list starting at the lowest levels or from the smallest details of an organization, system, plan, etc.: In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities. The union prides itself on a being a member-driven, bottom-up organization. He criticized the governor's proposal as a 'top-down solution to a bottom-up problem'. Compare top-down (Definition of bottom-up from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bottom-up

bottom-up Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences. From the Cambridge English Corpus The bottom-up definition of fork-node trees given in section 4.3 captures these structural constraints. From the Cambridge English Corpus The bottom-up priority rule at its essence directs lexical knowledge as to when it can inform phoneme decisions. From the Cambridge English Corpus The top-level interface uses a bottom-up approach to evaluating real numbers and is thus not a genuine type-2 implementation. From the Cambridge English Corpus This approach relieves the problems existing in a bottom-up approach and those in a top-down approach. From the Cambridge English Corpus Repeated spatial or temporal coincidences between top-down expectation signals and bottom-up input signals reinforce the relative weights of signal exchanges in a given neural circuit. From the Cambridge English Corpus Because the aim of our approach is to acquire know-how knowledge without disrupting a normal design process, we adopted a bottom-up approach. From the Cambridge English Corpus It uses a standard bottom-up, best-first probabilistic parser to first generate possible parses before ranking them with a probabilistic model. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is sometimes referred to as a "bottom-up" or inductive approach. From the Cambridge English Corpus This leaves open the possibility that bottom-up connectionist models, with some contextual constraints built into the access process, are still preferred models of spoken-word recognition. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, there is tremendous ambiguity in the speech signal, which makes it very unlikely that a pure bottom-up analysis can be efficient. From the Cambridge English Corpus The electoral majority the government rests on is top-down, not bottom-up, and thus is not one created by the voters' expressed preferences. From the Cambridge English Corpus Do leaf-cutting ant nests make 'bottom-up' gaps in neotropical rain forests? From the Cambridge English Corpus This politics of non-decisions gave rise to a bottom-up development of social policy arrangements. From the Cambridge English Corpus The richness of these bottom-up sources of redundancy leaves little room for any top-down sources to improve the phonological yield. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of bottom-up These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of bottom-up?

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in Chinese (Traditional) （計劃、組織等）先考慮細節，再考慮總體的方式的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （计划、组织等）由细节到总体的方式的… See more Need a translator?

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