Meaning

3 senses
  1. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.

    an interruption of normal activity

  2. The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.

    Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.

  3. The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.

Origin

Deverbal from tie up.

Deverbal from tie up.

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Forms

plural: tie-ups
Singulartie-up
Pluraltie-ups

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtie up

See also

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