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tie_up
has definitions from the fields of stock exchange,nautical
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[ verb ] secure with or as if with ropes
Examples "tie down the prisoners" "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)A band of robbers enters a railroad_station , overpowers and ties_up the telegraph_operator , holds_up the train and escapes . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)His money was tied_up in a Nassau hotel , an Ohio pottery works , and a detergent for window-washing , and luck had been running against him . |
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[ verb ] (stock exchange) invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
Examples "All my money is tied up in long-term investments" Related terms |
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