jointery

plural jointeries

1. governmentCooperation between discrete military branches; the use of joint forces in an operation.

   Inadequate 'jointery', i.e. effective inter-services coordination, and not just between the four military services, remains an important shortcoming of the American effort.

   2002, Julian Lindley-French, Terms of Engagement: The Paradox of American Power and the Transatlantic Dilemma Post-11 September, Paris: EUISS, page 37

2. alternativeAlternative spelling of joinery.

   Houses were invariably built of logs, which, providing the timber was of good quality, were held in place with wooden pegs and dovetail or saddle notch jointery.

   1997, James W. Darlington, “Farmsteads as Mirrors of Cultural Adjustment and Change: The Ukranian Canadian Experience”, in Great Plains Research, volume 7, number 1, page 75