Definition of "tie-up" in English

noun

1. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.

2. (finance) The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.

   • Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.

3. (weaving) The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.