set%20up
verb
- 1
To ready something for use.
“We set up the sprinkler.”
- 2
To arrange logically.
“Set up my CD collection.”
- 3
To cause to happen.
“Even a minor change can set up new bugs.”
- 4
To trap or ensnare.
“I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.”
- 5
To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
“The election was set up!”
- 6
To gel or harden.
“Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.”
- 7
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.”
- 8
To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
“A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.”
- 9
To establish someone in a business or position.
“After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.”
- 10
To trick someone in order to make them do something.
“They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.”
- 11
To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- 12
To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- 13
To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- 14
To begin business or a scheme of life.
“to set up in trade; to set up for oneself”
- 15
To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- 16
To found; to start (a business, scheme)
adjective
- 1
In a position to function; ready.
“Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!”
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