The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TIES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TIES
- Millions extracted from newspaper unions
- Draws matches
- Draws even with final four of penalties
- Oddly deficient strikers in no-win situations
- Occasions to cut married links
- Secures inconclusive results
- Makes bonds by losing money
- Tethers heads of The International Ecotourism Society
- It's about preserving energy in relationships
- Reportedly Asians’ connections
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What does TIES mean?
TIES noun- A knot; a fastening.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- A connection between two vertices.
- A tiewig.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To believe; to credit.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.