NOUN
- an interruption of normal activity
-
a social or business relationship
many close associations with England
he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team
a valuable financial affiliation
How To Use tie-up In A Sentence
- The tie-up will enable the company to take the card business to centres where the associate banks are located.
- Despite his public stance, Mr. Trapani over the past couple of years was meeting behind the scenes "with almost everybody" in the luxury-goods business in order to engineer a tie-up, he said. Bulgari Gives LVMH a Bump
- HSY.N), a Mars competitor, gained 4.6 percent to $36.35 on speculation that the Wrigley/Mars deal will compel a tie-up between the U.S. confectioner and Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Plc CBRY.L.
- The Kiddicare tie-up is a surprise but the £ 70 million price tag, which represents 1.9 times annual sales, "seems a relatively modest price to pay for a business with the potential, in terms of management and systems to get Morrisons more heavily involved in nonfood online," said Arden Partners analyst Nick Bubb. Morrison Buys Kiddicare in Online Push
- Their respective boards have long coveted a tie-up. Times, Sunday Times
- For a change there was no big traffic tie-up along the I-5 corridor. BREACH OF DUTY
- The eight-day tie-up has been an agreed method within the Community during the current year.
- The deal is expected to result in similar tie-ups between big media companies and telecommunications operators.
- *** Transportation Hitachi, the Japanese technology conglomerate, is in talks with firms in India and Brazil with the aim of finding local partners for tie-ups in railway operations within a year, a senior company executive said, as it looks to take on more powerful European and North American rivals. Business Watch
- The good-ought tie-up works for the commendatory use of How to Kill a Missionary
