tied
Britishadjective
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(of a public house, retail shop, etc) obliged to sell only the beer, products, etc, of a particular producer
a tied house
tied outlet
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(of a house or cottage) rented out to the tenant for as long as he or she is employed by the owner
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(of a loan) made by one nation to another on condition that the money is spent on goods or services provided by the lending nation
Example Sentences
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Risk sentiment spurred gains in chip stocks, which have been tied to the artificial-intelligence boom.
They found that dynamic DNA folding was especially important in regions tied to each cell's specific role.
From Science Daily
Santa Margarita had tied it in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single from Chase Marlow.
From Los Angeles Times
As a product of both French and British colonies, bilingualism is "intimately tied to the history of Canada" and a part of its continued unity, Larocque said.
From BBC
Shareholders have cheered the decisions by Detroit automakers to scrap their boldest EV dreams—looking beyond $50 billion in charges tied to broken supplier contracts and wasted investments.
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