tie-up
noun 3
Definitions
noun
1
A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
The tie-up hit at the height of the wheat harvest and trade spokesmen said any delays in moving the grain to storage could be disastrous.
2
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
The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.
Fancy tie-ups and treadlings can be designed that weave the ordinary symmetrical point twill like an 8-pointed star or some other motif.
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