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top-down has no recorded synonym. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is bottom-up.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for top-down come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.