"tied house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tied houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tied house (plural tied houses)
  1. (UK) A public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, and which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of its stock from said pubco. Tags: UK Synonyms: tied pub Hyponyms: managed house, managed pub
    Sense id: en-tied_house-en-noun-VRlKvJDh Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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