tie up with sb/sth
tie
noun
uk /taɪ/us
[ C,usually plural ]
a personal or financial connection or relationship between people, organizations, countries, etc.:
ties with sb/sthHe makes no apologies for his ties with the failed bank.
The two leading bidders have close ties with American media groups.
break/cut/sever tiesOne of the world's biggest hotel operators severed its ties with the popular travel website.
diplomatic/economic/political tiesThe president urged governments worldwide to break diplomatic ties with the oppressive regime.
[ C ] WORKPLACE (US alsonecktie)
a long thin piece of material that is worn under a shirt collar, especially by men, and tied in a knot at the front:
Men are expected to wear a suit and tie in the office.

Examples of tie

tie
Moreover, such priming effects are tied to representations in the brain.
The actors are able to reach common agreement on their preferences and are open to ties with other parties.
The collective results suggest that neural populations, rather than the individual cell, determine the spatial proper ties of its receptive field.
There is a fairly straightforward answer to this question, which is intimately tied to their concept of iteration.
An individual is concerned over a triple of alternatives if these alternatives are not all tied in this individual's preference ordering.
In both countries older women generally had more close ties than older men and received more kinds of support.
Rather, we should admit that the ties are somewhat different in different contexts.
To begin, venues are directly tied to policy solutions, and advocacy groups do have preferences in this regard.
Rather, moral is referring to the form taken by ties which bind individuals and groups in social relations.
In this rubric, the political is released from a necessary tie to centralized governance and simply represents itself as a social production.
Others are so closely tied to elected politicians that they lack substantial independence.
The study indicates that the intensity-dependent phase of the atomic dipole should play a major role in the spatial coherence proper ties of harmonic emission.
When troubles arose, the ministry arranged mergers, utilizing its informal ties with banks.
This peripatetic round of appointments made it highly unlikely that he would develop lasting ties with townspeople.
He advocated nurturing the sociocultural and political orientations he believed were tied to the identity of the state.
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Collocations withtie

tie

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blue tie
Then there was a further transformation—a bluetie with red polka dots; then a bluetie; then the final transmogrification took place—the colour purple.
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