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View synonyms for bottom out

bottom out

verb

  1. intr, adverb to reach the lowest point and level out

    the recession shows no sign of bottoming out

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Idioms and Phrases

Reach the lowest level, as in The recession appears to have bottomed out . This verbal use of bottom originated in the late 1800s and, with the addition of out in the mid-1900s, tends to be used mostly in the context of trade and finance.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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