tie-up

Deverbal from tie up.

tie-up (plural tie-ups)

1. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
   • 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:

     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. (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.
   • 1991, Carol Strickler, editor, A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     Fancy tie-ups and treadlings can be designed that weave the ordinary symmetrical point twill like an 8-pointed star or some other motif.

• UPite, tepui, uptie