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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tie-up is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tie-up a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tie-up is tagged as noun.
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