Usually means: Secure or bind with rope.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word tie up:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tie-up, tie up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tie-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tie-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tie-up, tie-up, tie up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tie-up, tie up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tie-Up, Tie-up, tie-up: Wordnik
  7. tie-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tie-up, tie up: Wiktionary
  9. tie-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tie-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tie-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tie-up, tie up: Dictionary.com
  13. tie-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. tie-up, tie up: Rhymezone
  15. tie-up, tie up: Free Dictionary
  16. tie-up, tie up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tie-up, tie up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tie up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie-up, tie up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie up, tie up, tie up, tie up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tie up)

verb:  To secure with rope, string, etc.
verb:  (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
verb:  (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
verb:  (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.

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