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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tie-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ frustrating traffic tie-ups
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He may consolidate his position by entering into a merger of sorts with Carlton when the Government permits such tie-ups in 1994.
▪ Indeed the whole colour market is rapidly moving upwards beyond the reach of the amateur following Adobe's tie-up with Scitex.
▪ It is also contemplating tie-ups with software houses or large user organisations abroad.
▪ The tie-up could send a chill through Bill Gates since it gives Novell an interesting point of entry to the enterprise.
▪ The tie-up with petrochemicals is logical.
▪ The Apple/IBM/Novell tie-up will result in Object Management Group-compliant technology drawn from existing internal projects.
▪ The eight-day tie-up has been an agreed method within the Community during the current year.
Wiktionary
tie-up

n. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity

WordNet
tie-up

  1. n. a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, association, tie]

  2. an interruption of normal activity [syn: stand, standstill]

Usage examples of "tie-up".

The other was Harry Vincent, who had successfully contacted Vendible regarding a proposed advertising tie-up to follow the cryptography convention.

Kemper believed that Peggy Dawson had sold out Spooner in order to make a new tie-up with him.

American sight-seers were considered open game in parts of Chinatown, and Chon Look, by a tie-up with the bus owners, soon had a going enterprise.

By a tie-up with Socks Mallory, then an enterprising racketeer, Pringle peopled his catacombs with a squad of wanted men - chosen ruffians who stayed below ground gladly, and who served as the advance workers.

Sentimentally, the majority of people in this world would far rather be in a tie-up with Russia than with America, and it is possible to imagine situations in which the popular cause would become the anti-American cause.

And pulling up to those tie-ups was a gondola sculled by a dusky girl in a dark cap.

He was doing some business with a local shipping agent called Kyriades who has some tie-up with Jim Ritchie's air-taxi firm.

After a bit, a good many other cars had turned up, and the going had got slow, and when they had finally driven slippingly down after dawn onto the sodden Oxford plain into the midst of a muddy traffic tie-up, Richard had thanked them and left.