Betekenis van bottom out In het Nederlands

• 0 to have reached the lowest point in a continuously changing situation and to be about to improve:

  • Economists think that the recession is bottoming out.

• 1 to reach the lowest point in a changing situation, before any improvement begins:

  • The housing market has bottomed out in this part of the country.

• 2 to reach the lowest point in a continuously changing level that is about to start rising or increasing again:

  • He believes the economic slump has bottomed out, and the economy will turn around.

  • Long-term mortgage rates bottomed out and have risen sharply since then.