tied house
tied house noun: a public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, and which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of its stock from said pubco.
Noun
tied house (plural tied houses)
- A public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, and which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of its stock from said pubco.
- [T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the...1935, G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown
- Synonyms:
- tied pub
Synonyms of tied house
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Forms of tied house
| plural | tied houses |
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Questions about tied house
- What does tied house mean?
- Tied house means a public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, and which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of its stock from said pubco.
- What part of speech is tied house?
- Tied house is a noun.
- What is the plural of tied house?
- The plural of tied house is tied houses.
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