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Definition: Meaning of, set up in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / sɛt ʌp /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
set up set up set up
Present Participle Third Person Singular
setting up sets up
  1. [intransitive/transitive] to start something such as a business, organization, or institution
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  2. [transitive] to make it possible for someone to start a business, organization, or institution
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  3. [transitive] to organize or plan something such as an event or system
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  4. [transitive] to build a structure, or to put it in a particular place
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  5. [intransitive/transitive] to make a piece of equipment ready for use
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  6. [transitive] set up something to make something start to happen
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  7. [transitive] British English to prepare someone for something
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  8. [transitive] informal to arrange a situation so that someone is blamed for doing something, especially something illegal
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  9. [transitive] to put someone in a position of power
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  10. to arrange for two people who you know to go out together because you think they might like each other
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  11. set up camp
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  12. to put a tent in an upright position, or to build a shelter somewhere
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  13. to put your possessions or equipment in a particular place so that you can live, work, or spend a lot of time there
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  14. set someone up for life to provide someone with enough money so that they do not have to work for the rest of their life
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  15. set up house / home to begin living in a particular place or with a particular person
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  16. set yourself up as something to claim to be something that you are not
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small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor
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