'tie up' definitions:
Definition of 'tie up'
(from WordNet)
verb
Secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss]
verb
Invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes; "All my money is tied up in long-term investments"
verb
Restrain from moving or operating normally; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred"
verb
verb
Finish the last row [syn: tie up, bind off]
Synonyms of 'tie up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act in concert,
- act together,
- addition,
- affiliate,
- affiliation,
- afterthought,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alight,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- ally,
- amalgamate,
- amalgamation,
- anchor,
- Anschluss,
- articulation,
- assimilation,
- associate,
- association,
- bale,
- band,
- band together,
- bandage,
- be in league,
- belt,
- bend,
- bind,
- bind up,
- blend,
- blending,
- block,
- blockage,
- bond,
- boycott,
- boycottage,
- brace,
- bracketing,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- bundle up,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- cast anchor,
- centralization,
- chain,
- cinch,
- clog,
- club together,
- clustering,
- coact,
- coadunation,
- coalesce,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- collaborate,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- collude,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- come to anchor,
- come to land,
- communication,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- concatenation,
- concert,
- concord,
- concourse,
- concur,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederate,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consolidate,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- convergence,
- cooperate,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- copulation,
- corner,
- coupling,
- curb,
- debark,
- debus,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deplane,
- detention,
- detrain,
- disembark,
- disemplane,
- do business with,
- do up,
- dock,
- double take,
- dragging,
- drop anchor,
- drop the hook,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- enchain,
- encompassment,
- engross,
- enosis,
- entrammel,
- fasten,
- federalization,
- federate,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- fetter,
- forestall,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- fuse,
- fusion,
- gathering,
- get heads together,
- get together,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- go ashore,
- go partners,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- hang together,
- hang-up,
- harmonize,
- hindrance,
- hobble,
- hog,
- hog-tie,
- hold together,
- holdup,
- hook up,
- hookup,
- hopple,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interim,
- interlinking,
- jam,
- job action,
- join,
- join in,
- join together,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- junta,
- kedge,
- kedge off,
- keep together,
- knotting,
- lace,
- lag,
- lagging,
- land,
- lash,
- lash and tie,
- lay anchor,
- league,
- league together,
- leash,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- lockout,
- logjam,
- make a landfall,
- make common cause,
- make fast,
- make land,
- make port,
- manacle,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- meld,
- melding,
- merge,
- merger,
- merging,
- monopolize,
- moor,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- outlaw strike,
- pack,
- package,
- package deal,
- pairing,
- paperasserie,
- parcel,
- partner,
- partnership,
- pause,
- peg down,
- picket,
- pin down,
- pinion,
- play ball,
- pull together,
- put heads together,
- put in,
- put in irons,
- put into port,
- reach land,
- reciprocate,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- restrain,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- revolt,
- roll up,
- rope,
- rulebook slowdown,
- secure,
- shackle,
- sick-in,
- sit-down,
- sit-down strike,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- splice,
- stand together,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- straitjacket,
- strap,
- strike,
- suspension,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy strike,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- take it all,
- team up,
- tether,
- throw in together,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie in,
- tie-in,
- time lag,
- trammel,
- truss,
- truss up,
- turnout,
- unboat,
- unification,
- union,
- unite,
- unite efforts,
- wait,
- walkout,
- wedding,
- wildcat strike,
- wire,
- work stoppage,
- work together,
- wrap,
- wrap up,
- yoking
Words containing 'tie up'
- -ties,
- Tie,
- Tied,
- Ties,
- To tie down,
- To tie up,
- Tying,
- tie down,
- tie in,
- tied up,
- tying up,
- Bale tie,
- Chain tie,
- Intermediate tie,
- To ride and tie,
- black tie,
- bola tie,
- bolo tie,
- bow tie,
- cup tie,
- fit to be tied,
- hog tie,
- railroad tie,
- string tie,
- tie beam,
- tie clip,
- tie rack,
- tie rod,
- tie tack,
- tie-in,
- tie-on,
- tie-up,
- tongue tie,
- tongue tied,
- white tie,
- windsor tie,
- Cross-tie,
- Tie-rod,
- Tongue-tie,
- Tongue-tied,
- White-tie,
- black-tie,
- bow-tie,
- hog-tie,
- old school tie,
- tie-dye,
- white tie and tails