Synonyms for tied up
tied 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. Chris Wheeler:

   His urgent jobs are continuing to reduce the capital tied up in the business, how to push up the RoE (return on equity) and push down costs, and what to be thinking about in terms of the mix of the business.

2. 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.

3. Tom Jennings:

   She was plucked out basically from a life of luxury… having been raised by the Hearst family, to being tied up in a broom closet for days on end, being indoctrinated to this point of view that, everything having to do with how society was held together was wrong, who among us is to say how we would react under those kinds of circumstances?

4. Dan Wilkins:

   This magnetic field getting tied up and then snapping close to the black hole heats everything around it and produces these high energy electrons that then go on to produce the X-rays.

5. Mike Huskins:

   If he was tied up ... maybe something like that was happening, i don't know ... maybe he was tied up. I pray to God she's not going through horror.