joined up
Speech parts
1. joined up - Adjective
2. joined up - Verb
Meaning
(handwriting) cursive
Yesterday, the class started to learn joined-up writing.
(often sarcastic) coherent
(politics) coordinated across government departments
The government do not have a joined-up policy on education.
joined up
simple past and past participle of join up
Synonyms
Examples
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.