Synonyms for top-down
top-down

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1. top-downadjective

   Antonyms:
   bottom-up

2. top-downadjective

   Antonyms:
   bottom-up

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1. top-downadjective

   of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details

   "a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming"

   Antonyms:
   bottom-up

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1. List of paraphrases for "top-down":

   downward, descending, scion, vertical, descendant, descendent, hierarchical

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1. Mike Huckabee:

   I think that a lot of fundamentals of Tea Party have economic policies that empower people from the bottom up rather than have an economy that works from the top down.

2. Katsukiyo Mizumoto:

   I am losing my strength each year. But because I had adopted a top down management style, my staff only wait for my decisions.

3. Jean Marie Dangou:

   Our communication was top down and the way we delivered the messages was wrong. We told people to stop doing things without explaining why.

4. President Biden:

   Now, two years in, it's clearer than ever that our plan is working. We're building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. Not just the top down, because when we do that, by the way, the wealthy do very, very well. And everybody — the poor have a shot, and the middle class can have a little breathing room. An economy that benefits the folks in the Heartland as well as in our cities and all across America.

5. Zachary Shipstead:

   The question is did top-down executive function improve, is the brain changing in a meaningful way, or are these changes just specific to the task?