VERB
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put into a proper or systematic order
arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order -
begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
set up an election -
place
Her manager had set her up at the Ritz -
create by putting components or members together
They set up a committee
She pieced a quilt
He tacked together some verses -
arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
rig an election -
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
Get the children ready for school!
prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill -
produce
The scientists set up a shock wave -
equip with sails or masts
rig a ship -
set up for use
We put in a new sink
install the washer and dryer -
get ready for a particular purpose or event
set up an experiment
lay out the tools for the surgery
set the table -
take or catch as if in a snare or trap
The innocent man was framed by the police
I was set up! -
construct, build, or erect
Raise a barn -
set up or found
She set up a literacy program -
arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
set up one's life
I put these memories with those of bygone times
arrange my schedule -
erect and fasten
pitch a tent
How To Use set up In A Sentence
- WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
- It lies less than 100 miles from Melbourne and is well set up for visitors to enjoy myriad up close experiences with the local fauna. Times, Sunday Times
- The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
- Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
- There is also disquiet that many key staff were poached to set up the US series. The Sun
- “At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
- This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Home
- The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times
