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joined-up, a. Brit.
Brit. |ˌdʒɔɪndˈʌp|, U.S. |ˌdʒɔɪndˈəp|
[‹ joined, past participle of join v.1 + up adv.1]
1. Connected, conjoined. Of writing: cursive (as learnt in elementary school as a stage beyond printing individual letters separately), esp. in joined-up writing, joined-up handwriting; freq. used allusively and humorously to suggest a (usually basic) level of intelligence or standard of educational attainment (or depreciatively a lack of these). Cf. joining-hand n.
In quot. 1980, a punning reference to anthologized work.
[1980K. Smith (title) The joined-up writing.] 1983M. Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom (BNC) 137, I starts the last readin' book on Mondee, and joined-up writing. 1989Times 26 Apr. 18/2 Lots of people who can do joined-up writing have been brought in to pontificate on this and that. 1990A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (1991) x. 139 A stage with cubicles runs round the four walls, leaving a well in the middle for the huge ‘bird-table’ of joined-up maps. 1999R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 7. 189 Stuart: (Grins) Lesbian letters. Can I read them? Lisa: I doubt it, it's joined-up handwriting.
2.
a. colloq. (freq. humorous). Of thought, speech, etc.: coherent, organized, cogently or articulately developed; (also, in ironic or derogatory contexts) designating thought or speech only barely attaining such coherence. Now also in Polit.: designating thought characteristic of ‘joined-up government’ (see sense 2b). Usu. in joined-up thinking.
1989Campaign 24 Mar. 43/4 To our surprise and disappointment, few could manage any joined-up thinking. 1993T. Holt Overtime (BNC) 132 It was like watching a woodlouse climbing a wall, listening to Marco doing joined-up speaking. 1997Observer 4 May 27/2 The gladiatorial style of debate may give way to what one new woman MP described as ‘joined-up thinking’. 2001Ecologist Sept. 26/2 At that moment the long overdue arrival of governmental ‘joined-up thinking’ seemed to have arrived [sic].
b. Polit. Of, relating to, or designating a political strategy which seeks to coordinate the development and implementation of policies across government departments and agencies, esp. with the aim of addressing complex social problems, such as social exclusion and poverty, in a comprehensive, integrated way. Usu. in joined-up government.
Associated particularly with the British Labour government elected in 1997 and re-elected in 2001.
1997Herald (Glasgow) 11 Dec. 20 The objectives of the Social Exclusion Unit point up a failure to achieve ‘joined-up government’. 1999Earth Matters (Friends of the Earth) Spring 13/2 If we win the argument internationally—and put in place the ‘joined-up’ policies necessary to deliver it—we can help to lay the foundations for a more equitable and sustainable world in the twenty first century. 2001Independent 10 July ii. 5/5 The mantras of New Labour—‘education, education, education’, ‘joined-up government’, ‘making work pay’—are all betrayed by this systematic refusal to look at people as people and not as the recipients of abstract, intellectual, judgements. |