English主要词典
tie-up
Universal Words
noun
1 ~ (with sb/sth) (BrE) an agreement between two companies to join together:
They're negotiating a tie-up with Ford.
2 ~ (between A and B) (BrE) a connection between two or more things:
a tie-up between politics and economics
3 (especially AmE) a situation in which sth stops working or moving forward:
a traffic tie-up
