tie-up

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsaffiliationassociationtie

   Broaderrelationship
2. 2.

   an interruption of normal activity

   Synonymsstandstandstill

   Broaderstop

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: ti-e-up. The stress falls on "ti".

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.