0 a connection or agreement that joins two things or organizations: --
1 a temporary problem that delays progress, such as too much traffic on the road: --
I missed my flight because of a tie-up on the interstate.
3 a stop caused by having too many things come or happen together: --
An overturned truck caused a huge traffic tie-up.
4 an agreement between two organizations to work on a particular activity together: --
We must also deal with effort control, the limiting of the days at sea, and the compulsory tie-up in port.
The tie-up may have a serious effect on safety and it will operate arbitrarily.
It is not a tie-up at all in a direct sense.
I am not convinced that the eight-day tie-up regulation meets those objectives.
It is inevitable, under the eight-day continuous tie-up rule, that fishermen will be pushed to sea in rough weather.
It represents the seething anger in the fishing communities about the imposition of the eight-day tie-up scheme.
Let me address certain specific and important issues, the first of which is the eight-day tie-up.
It is dangerous to democracy when we get a tie-up between the two main methods.
