0 Joined-up writing has each letter in a word connected to the next one: --
[ before noun ] My daughter is just starting to learn how to do joined-up writing at school.
1 if ideas or parts of a system are joined-up, they work together in a useful and effective way: --
That is hardly an example of joined-up government.
If we want joined-up government, we must think across budgets.
The concepts of joined-up government and cross-cutting are important, and nowhere more so than on this issue.
Instead, we have recognised the need for joined-up solutions to joined-up problems.
It is now my opportunity to say a few words about joined-up thinking.
That is real joined-up government—health, social services and education acting together for the benefit of women in our communities.
The problem is that teenagers already know about joined-up action, because that is what they are doing all the time.
I am reluctant to use the phrase "joined-up government"—it seems to cause mirth—but that is what is needed.
