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tied house
noun
, British.
- a public house or tavern owned by or under contract to a brewery whose brands of beer, ale, etc., it sells exclusively.
- Also called tied cottage. a house owned by an employer and rented to an employee.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tied house1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
It was probably when the inn became a tied house that this exhortation to drink moderately disappeared.
From Project Gutenberg
Are you going to make our shelter another tied house for him, and ask me to keep it?
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