Transcription
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- [tahy uhp]
- /taɪ ʌp/
- /taɪ ʌp/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tahy uhp]
- /taɪ ʌp/
Definitions of tie-up word
- noun tie-up a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident. 1
- noun tie-up the act or state of tying up or the state of being tied up. 1
- noun tie-up an involvement, connection, or entanglement: the tie-up between the two companies; his tie-up with the crime syndicate. 1
- noun tie-up a mooring place; place where a boat may be tied up. 1
- noun tie-up a cow barn with stalls. 1
- noun tie-up a stall allotted to each cow in such a barn. 1
Information block about the term
Origin of tie-up
First appearance:
before 1705 One of the 50% oldest English words
First recorded in 1705-15; noun use of verb phrase tie up
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Parts of speech for Tie-up
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tie-up popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 59% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
Synonyms for tie-up
noun tie-up
- agglutination — the act or process of agglutinating
- association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
- camarilla — a group of confidential advisers, esp formerly, to the Spanish kings; cabal
- collocation — In linguistics, collocation is the way that some words occur regularly whenever another word is used.
- combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.