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tie-in
[ tahy-in ]
adjective
- pertaining to or designating a sale in which the buyer in order to get the item desired must also purchase one or more other, usually undesired, items.
- of or relating to two or more products advertised, marketed, or sold together.
noun
- an arrangement or campaign whereby related products are promoted, marketed, or sold together:
a book and movie tie-in.
- a tie-in sale or advertisement.
- an item in a tie-in sale or advertisement.
- any direct or indirect link, relationship, or connection:
There is a tie-in between smoking and cancer.
tie in
verb
- to come or bring into a certain relationship; coordinate
noun
- a link, relationship, or coordination
- publicity material, a book, tape, etc, linked to a film or broadcast programme or series
- a sale or advertisement offering products of which a purchaser must buy one or more in addition to his purchase
- an item sold or advertised in this way, esp the extra item
- ( as modifier )
a tie-in sale
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tie-in1
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Idioms and Phrases
Connect closely with, coordinate, as in They are trying to tie in the movie promotion with the book it is based on , or His story does not tie in with the facts . [First half of 1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
However, an article designed to act as a tie-in to the piece has been published as planned in the BBC magazine Radio Times.
DC is taking note, with a successful iPad Smallville tie-in.
And growing: The film's release catapulted the movie tie-in version of the paperback back onto the top of bestseller lists.
But the potential Tice tie-in indicates the real explanation could be rooted in a deal gone bad.
A woman has a tie-in with those material things, and the new life brought freedom from that.
And all of them seem to have some sort of weird tie-in to these flashes of telepathic interference.
Could be tie-in his father's execution and use of psi ability.
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