top-down
- adjective
- /tɑp-daʊn/
- The new policies were implemented using a top-down approach, starting with the highest management levels.
- top-down approach
- top-down process
- top-down model
I think there has to be some top down interventions as well.
- I think there has to be some top down interventions as well.
- And so there was some top down social engineering.
- Once you have attention come in, then you have the need for top down control of attention.
- But I think that what you're talking about is top down control.
- But our starting point is top down.
- That's exactly what it took support from the top down.
- But not all workplace narcissistic abuse happens from the top down.
- And at the end of the day, I don't think it's possible to have a complete top down coordination of that system.
- But in in the book you distinguish between bottom up and top down design.
- But you know, and I, you know, when you say from the top down, I just, I don't, I don't know if that works.
- Chaos begins from the top down, disorganization begins from the top down.
Examples
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Third, GREP moved away from a top-down approach to vaccination efforts.
Academic text (2013) -
What Australian educators resist most is a top-down approach that imposes a common curriculum.
Academic text (1995) -
This is called a top down function.
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So what happens is orders come from on top down to the soldiers on the field.
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Once you have attention come in, then you have the need for top down control of attention.
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What troubled me was that this top down approach is still around.
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Now he wants to impose top down housing targets.
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But what we do not need is another round of major, top-down NHS reforms.
Academic text (2015) -
Scholars and professionals frustrated with this top-down method have recommended moving toward a participatory approach.
Academic text (2011) -
Neither export-driven growth nor the top-down approach to decision-making will continue to yield good results forever.
Academic text (2012)
Antonyms
How Top-Down
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Top-down joins top and down, literally meaning 'from the top to the bottom'. So a top-down approach starts with the big picture or the leaders and then moves into smaller, more detailed parts.