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bottom on

bottom on verb: to ground or base on.

Verb

bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)

  1. (transitive) To ground or base on.
    • Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson
    • Commutative justice relates to the exchange of one thing for another, and is bottomed on the principle of something for something, or as the lawyers say, quid pro quo.1844, Edward Dorr Griffin, Sermons, Not Before Published, on Various Practical Subjects

Forms of bottom on

third-person singular presentbottoms on
present participlebottoming on
past participlebottomed on
pastbottomed on

Questions about bottom on

What does bottom on mean?
Bottom on means to ground or base on.
What part of speech is bottom on?
Bottom on is a verb.
What is the past tense of bottom on?
The past tense of bottom on is bottomed on.

Words near bottom on in the dictionary

  1. bottom of the hour
  2. bottom of the line
  3. bottom of the ninth
  4. bottom of the sea
  5. bottom of the table
  6. bottom on
  7. bottom order
  8. bottom out
  9. bottom pair
  10. bottom pairs
  11. bottom power

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