tie up

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En français : ligoter, immobiliser

To secure with rope, string, etc. · Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake.· The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault.
To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay. · He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now.
To complete, finish, or resolve. · I'd like to tie up the project before I leave.
To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable. · Don't tie up your capital in aging accounts.

Dans la bibliothèque

One of those street blockades had occurred that sometimes tie up commerce and movement quite suddenly in the big city.

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 13 · C1

The abbé began like you, and in three days you will be like him, mad enough to tie up; but, fortunately, there are dungeons here.”

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 80 · C1

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