Definition of "top-to-bottom" []

• A piece of graffiti covering the whole height of a railway carriage. (noun)

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• "That memo has helped spark what the Army Medical Command calls a "top-to-bottom" review of a Madigan forensic psychiatric team charged with screening soldiers under consideration for medical retirement."
• "Carper's Republican counterpart, Sen. Susan Collins Maine, called on the president to endorse "top-to-bottom reform" that she said was lacking in his budget proposals."
• "The only thing keeping a thorough top-to-bottom investigation of the Bush administration is President Obama's fruitless quest for bipartisanship."