TIE UP meaning: Secure or bind with rope

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word tie up:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

tie up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tie-up, tie up: Merriam-Webster
tie-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
tie-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
tie-up, tie-up, tie up: Collins English Dictionary
tie-up, tie up: Vocabulary.com
Tie-Up, Tie-up, tie-up: Wordnik
tie-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
tie-up, tie up: Wiktionary
tie-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
tie-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
tie-up: Infoplease Dictionary
tie-up, tie up: Dictionary.com
tie-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
tie-up, tie up: Rhymezone
tie-up, tie up: FreeDictionary.org
tie-up, tie up: Mnemonic Dictionary
tie-up, tie up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
tie up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

tie-up, tie up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

tie up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

tie up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

tie up, tie up, tie up, tie up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tie up)

▸ verb:  To secure with rope, string, etc.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
▸ verb:  (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.

Similar:

bind, truss, tie down, bind off, rope up, bind up, rope, tie off, lasso up, string up, more...

Opposite:

untie, unfasten, loosen, release, unbind

Types:

square knot, bowline, cleat hitch, clove hitch, double sheet bend, figure eight knot, fisherman's knot, more...

Phrases:

tie up in knots, to tie up, tie up with, tie up loose ends, more...

Adjectives:

lash, key, tag, clutch, seizing, tanged, bowtie, binding, tethered, batten, stapled

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