bottom out
— Phrasal Verb with bottom /ˈbɒtəm/ verbDefinition
› 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.
(Definition of bottom out from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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