tied house

nounBritish.

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.

Origin of tied house

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First recorded in 1885–90

Words Nearby tied house

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How to use tied house in a sentence

It was probably when the inn became a tied house that this exhortation to drink moderately disappeared.
The Old Inns of Old England, Volume II (of 2) | Charles G. Harper
Are you going to make our shelter another tied house for him, and ask me to keep it?
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama | Emma Goldman

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