tied house
Americannoun
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a public house or tavern owned by or under contract to a brewery whose brands of beer, ale, etc., it sells exclusively.
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Also called tied cottage. a house owned by an employer and rented to an employee.
Etymology
Origin of tied house
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Doolan's is a tied house; and the brewers are in the syndicate.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
The system of the tied house, originally an indigenous corruption of the liquor trade, is being extended to every industry in the land.
From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by John Mavrogordato
Are you going to make our shelter another tied house for him, and ask me to keep it?
From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw
We had a bonser hotel once, kid—a tied house, you know.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
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