Usually means: Binding or securing something together.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word tie-up:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tie-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. tie-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tie-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tie-up, tie-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tie-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tie-Up, Tie-up, tie-up: Wordnik
  7. tie-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tie-up: Wiktionary
  9. tie-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tie-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tie-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tie-up: Dictionary.com
  13. tie-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. tie-up: Rhymezone
  15. tie-up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tie-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tie-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie-up: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie-up, tie-up, tie-up, tie-up, tie-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
noun:  (finance) The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.
noun:  (weaving) The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.

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