tie-up

Converse of object

• announce: Norwich City have announced a two-year tie-up with low cost airline Flybe to be the new club sponsors.
• have: We have tie-ups with a number of reputed lenders who may offer you loans keeping in mind your specific need.
• enforce: It is of great importance to understand that there is money in the EU budget to compensate fishermen for enforced tie-ups.
• say: Its target market will be mainly university towns and Grant said the tie-up effectively triples the size of his operation.
• compensate: We need to make more use of technical conservation measures and compensated tie-ups with less emphasis on the wholesale destruction of our fishing boats.
• avoid: Road Segment and Area Avoidance Would you like to avoid traffic tie-ups or roadwork?

Preposition: with

• company: A tie-up with a biotech company will also see the researchers trying to get rabbit clones to produce pharmaceutically useful proteins in their milk.
• airline: Norwich City have announced a two-year tie-up with low cost airline Flybe to be the new club sponsors.
• partner: DaimlerChrysler has some close operational tie-ups with the Japanese partner like joint development of engines and vehicle platform sharing.

Adjective modifier

• exclusive: Where are exclusive tie-ups with mobile phone and technology companies heading?
• commercial: Comment: consumers: building a better world through brands Claims about the power of commercial tie-ups with charities grow ever more extravagant.
• international: Rink's decision to join the consultant comes despite his former practice's famed resistance to pursuing a major international tie-up.
• successful: The move follows Disney's highly successful tie-up with iTunes in October.
• recent: With recent tie-ups in Singapore and China, plus healthy enrollment numbers, IU is a prominent international player.
• close: DaimlerChrysler has some close operational tie-ups with the Japanese partner like joint development of engines and vehicle platform sharing.

Modifies a noun

• scheme: In March 2001, he engineered the first defeat of the Labor Lib Dem Executive, over the issue of a fishing tie-up scheme.

Noun used with modifier

• traffic: I'd rent a car and drive, even given the strong possibility of traffic tie-ups.