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Definition of bottom-up adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

bottom-up

adjective
bottom-up pronunciation American
 
(of a plan, project, etc.) starting with details and then later moving on to more general principlesa bottom-up approach to tackling the problem compare top-down