Antonyms for tied uptied up

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1. 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"

   Antonyms:
   idle

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1. Norman Einstein:

   There is a real question about how much he has in terms of liquid assets, it’s quite possible that he does n’t have anywhere near what he suggests he has and what he does have is tied up in real estate, and selling that is no easy task.

2. Anthony DeStefano:

   I'm not saying the mob can't do anything or can't hurt you, but the big rackets have been sort of tied up by the feds and the police. They don't exist. The big labor racketeering rackets, the big concrete syndicates, the big garment industry rackets don't exist anymore. You have local businesses, like the restaurants, maybe an auto body shop, that could be muscled by the mob. That's where it still works. But the old-time stuff, forget it.

3. Hawaiian Electric:

   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.

4. Harvey Weinstein:

   My s--t is tied up with this man, it’s been a weird f---ing week... I just wanted to make some f---ing movies, that’s it. That’s why I came, that’s why I made ‘Clerks.’ And no f---ing movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, f--k it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really f---ing horrible.

5. Tom Cliff:

   Cotton is intimately associated with land usage, ownership, employment and Han in-migration. It's all tied up.

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