verb
To fasten
wrap, package, secure; see close 4, enclose 1.
To obstruct
hinder, stop, delay; see hinder.
See tie up in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
A cessation of normal activity, caused by an accident or strike, for example:
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