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top-down

top-down

9 6.0
A way that starts with a general idea and goes to details
  • adjective
  • /tɑp-daʊn/
translation icon : de arriba hacia abajo
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • So what happens is orders come from on top down to the soldiers on the field.

  • Once you have attention come in, then you have the need for top down control of attention.

  • What troubled me was that this top down approach is still around.

  • Now he wants to impose top down housing targets.

  • 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

9 6.0

A way that starts with small parts and moves to the whole

How Top-Down

top-down
9 6.0
multipronged
1 6.0
bottom-up
9 6.0

Surface Forms

top-down positive

Morphology

top-down = top (transparent) = down + top

A direct, literal compound of 'top' + 'down' meaning from the top level toward lower levels, which learners can readily infer. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

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.