Definitions for tie-up

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tie-up tie-up

Spelling: [tahy-uhp]

IPA: /ˈtaɪˌʌp/

Tie-Up is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in tie-up (-eiptu).

Definitions for tie-up

noun

1. a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
2. the act or state of tying up or the state of being tied up.
3. an involvement, connection, or entanglement:
4. a mooring place; place where a boat may be tied up.
5. a cow barn with stalls.
6. a stall allotted to each cow in such a barn.

Origin of tie-up

First recorded in 1705-15; noun use of verb phrase tie up

Examples for tie-up

The small door where the boys came in, led to a long and narrow passage, between the tie-up and the bay.

Could any tie-up with Russia—even a psionic one—stand against that kind of investigation?

Then came the great railroad strike, and the tie-up of the mails.

There was a tie-up on Earth, and the tie-up had to be on the very inside of the Supreme Council!

Buckling down to tie-up loose ends is key to lightening your mental load.

A tie-up of cars on the track ahead was accountable for the delay.

Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corners to save the collapse and tie-up.

Complications arising from the tie-up followed him at every turn.

By eight o'clock it was clear that the tie-up would be only partial.

Freight trains crowded every track in the yard, and the block of twelve hours indicated what a two-day tie-up would mean.