Sekirov Dictionary

set up

/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/

verb 20
adjective 1
forms 4

verb20

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To make ready for use.
- We set up the sprinkler.
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To establish someone in a business or position.
- After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
- She set herself up as an interior designer.
To begin business or a scheme of life.
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To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children. — 2017
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To prepare or get ready.
- Used with an implied object obvious from context.
- Give me a minute — I'm still setting up.
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To trap or ensnare.
- I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
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(informal) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.
To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
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To cause to happen.
- Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
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To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net. — 2011
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To arrange logically.
- Set up my CD collection.
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To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- Winning the lottery has set them up for life.
- A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.
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To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- The election was set up!
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To gel or harden.
- Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
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To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day. — 1992
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To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part — 1744
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To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.] — 1938
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To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.
(no longer used) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)

adjective1

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In a position to function; ready.
- Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

forms

setting up · sets up · more set up · most set up

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