tie-up
noun /ˈtaɪ ʌp/
/ˈtaɪ ʌp/
- tie-up (with somebody/something) (British English) an agreement between two companies to join together
- They're negotiating a tie-up with Ford.
- tie-up (between A and B) (British English) a connection between two or more things
- a tie-up between politics and economics
- (especially North American English) a situation in which something stops working or moving forward
- a traffic tie-up