tied house

noun

, British.

1. a public house or tavern owned by or under contract to a brewery whose brands of beer, ale, etc., it sells exclusively.
2. Also called tied cottage. a house owned by an employer and rented to an employee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tied house¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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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