Sekirov Dictionary

tie up

verb 4
/ˈtaɪˌʌp/ noun 3
forms 4

verb4

•
To secure with rope, string, etc.
- Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake.
- The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault.
•
To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
- He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now.
•
To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- Don't tie up your capital in aging accounts.
•
To complete, finish, or resolve.
- I'd like to tie up the project before I leave.

tie-up

/ˈtaɪˌʌp/

noun3

•
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. — 1964
•
The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.
- Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.
•
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. — 1991

forms

tied up · tying up · ties up · tie-ups

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