tie-up

Questions about tie-up

What does tie-up mean?

tie-up means "a social or business relationship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tie-up?

tie-up has 2 syllables and divides as ti-e-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tie-up?

Close synonyms include affiliation, association, tie, stand, standstill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tie-up a common word?

tie-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.