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tied houses

tied houses is the plural of tied house.

Meaning of tied house

Noun

tied house (plural tied houses)

  1. (UK) 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

Questions about tied houses

What is tied houses the plural of?
Tied houses is the plural of tied house.

Words near tied houses in the dictionary

  1. tied and dyed
  2. tied back
  3. tied down
  4. tied hand and foot
  5. tied house
  6. tied houses
  7. tied in
  8. tied in knots
  9. tied in with
  10. tied into
  11. tied island

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