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Tie-up
noun
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Noun
- 1 A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
"The tie-up hit at the height of the wheat harvest and trade spokesmen said any delays in moving the grain to storage could be disastrous."
- 2 an interruption of normal activity wordnet
- 3 The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.
"Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up."
- 4 a social or business relationship wordnet
- 5 The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.
"Fancy tie-ups and treadlings can be designed that weave the ordinary symmetrical point twill like an 8-pointed star or some other motif."
Etymology
Deverbal from tie up.
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