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tied up
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Princeton's WordNet
tied up(p)adjective
kept occupied or engaged
"she's tied up at the moment and can't see you"; "the phone was tied up for almost an hour"
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tied upadjective
occupied; busy
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Tied Up
Tied Up is a song recorded by American rapper Casey Veggies. It was released on April 27, 2015, as the second single from his debut studio album, Live & Grow (2015). The song produced by Kane Beatz and Luca Polizzi, features guest vocals from American rapper and singer Dej Loaf.
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tied up
"Tied up" generally refers to being occupied or engaged with something that prevents one from doing other things. It can also mean literally being tied or bound with ropes, strings, etc., or in financial terms, having assets that are not easily converted into cash.
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Tied Up
"Tied Up" was one of two new songs recorded for the 1982 greatest hits package titled "Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2" the song was the second single released from the album following "Heart Attack" the other new track recorded for the package. "Tied Up" did not do quite as well as "Heart Attack" reaching #38 on the US Billboard singles chart. The song also features Tom Scott on horns who also was the opening act for Olivia's 1982 "Physical" World Tour.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tied up in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tied up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of tied up in a Sentence
We think the threats, demands and Trump tweets against Mexico will continue, especially because it's all tied up with the politics of the 2020 election.
If you run for office and if you get elected to Congress, you've got to be willing to lose it, you know, or else you can't do the job. I think a lot of people have their egos and their entire personalities tied up with being a member of Congress. And all the perks that go along with that. I think they need to be willing to walk away from it, and I think they need to think not just about the next election or the next news cycle, I think they need to think about history. I think they need to think about how they're going to be judged and, you know, what future generations are going to say about this moment.
The government, the police think bonded labor is when someone is tied up in chains or locked inside a room. They don't even acknowledge that these workers are bonded, we tell the workers they have a right to be paid, to not be beaten or abused, to have time off, to send their kids to school.
Our challenge is to show leadership and not get tied up in any one particular red-line and miss the forest for the trees, which is : We have a semiconductor crisis, it's a national security crisis. It's an economic security crisis. And so, we just have to try to keep folks really focused on that.
Those projects could be tied up for a long time, it was important to us to keep jurisdiction of these projects in Hawaii and not have the projects involved in a bankruptcy.
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- گره خورده استPersian
- गठबंधनHindi
- legatoItalian
- związanyPolish
- amarradoPortuguese
- связанныйRussian
- بندھا ہواUrdu
- bị tróiVietnamese
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