bottom-up

Adjective

Meaning

of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level

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Alternative names

bottom up

Synonyms

down base below bottom upward underneath ascending ascendancy ascendant basilar ascendent upstream inferiorly grass- roots grassroots

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Antonyms

top-down high above top superior below

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Examples

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. Kevin Kelly (editor)

I am a very bottom-up thinker. Ken Thompson

I will not pursue trickle-down economics, but will implement bottom-up economics aimed at getting the poor out of poverty into prosperity. Peter Mutharika

I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things. Ken Thompson

Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices. Kevin Kelly (editor)

Managing bottom-up change is its own art. Kevin Kelly (editor)

Close letter words and terms

bottom-tier bottom-to-top bottom-trawling bottom-up approaches bottom-up decision-making bottom-up governance