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set_up
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[ verb ] set up or found
Examples "She set up a literacy program" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Consider what you can afford to spend and what your goals are before setting_up or revamping your employee benefit program . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Personally , I think we ought to set_up an immediate naval_blockade of Cuba . (Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)The opportunity exists for states to reserve some of their vocational education funds to apply on an ad_hoc flexible basis to subsidize any local preemployment_training_programs that my be quickly set_up in a community to aid a new industrial plant . All the manuals for setting_up vocational courses stress the importance of first making a local survey of skill needs , of estimating the growth of local jobs , and of consulting with local employers on the types of courses and their content . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make by putting pieces together
Synonyms Examples "She pieced a quilt" "He tacked together some verses" Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)A network of sampling_stations had been set_up on shore . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)At_any_rate , Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set_up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington . Related terms disassemble make join reassemble rig_up jumble confect compound configure hookup |
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[ verb ] construct, build, or erect
Examples "Raise a barn" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)At 7 : 25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps , carrying a saw-horse to be set_up as a barricade in_front_of the haberdashery_store window next to the entranceway , and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground , their golden , fringed epaulets and spic , red visored caps , I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)My men have been here all afternoon , setting_up for this thing '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] get ready for a particular purpose or event
Examples "set up an experiment" "set the table" "lay out the tools for the surgery" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Breeding to Adair to Gentile , setting_up Tuttle 's 390 - foot homer over the wall in left center . (The Dallas Morning News,...)And he caused the fumble that set_up our touchdown . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Winston had heard because he was setting_up the liquor tray in the next room . |
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[ adjective ] well established and ready to function
Examples "things I can do now that I'm set up" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Above_all , do n't set_up extravagant fringe_benefits just to buy employee good_will . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San_Francisco to set_up the legal framework , finally and at_last , to rationalize war - to rationalize want and fear - out of the world : the United_Nations . (George Harmon Coxe, Error of Judgement....)He was perhaps thirty-two , nicely set_up , with light_brown hair that had a pronounced wave . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)`` Those are the things I can do , now that I 'm set_up '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put into a proper or systematic order
Synonyms Examples "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)He went_to his cabin and emerged carrying a large chart , which he set_up in_view of the crew . |
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[ verb ] begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
Examples "set up an election" Used in print (Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)To do this , set_up a plan on_paper for operating the farm . Related terms |
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[ verb ] cause to happen or occur
Synonyms Examples "The scientists set up a shockwave" Used in print (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)During the discharge the magnetic_forces set_up by the passage of current cause the edges of the foil to roll inward toward its center_line , thus allowing light to pass into the camera . Related terms cause carry_through serve induce precipitate draw effect implementation effecter anticipate happen |
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[ verb ] take or catch as if in a snare or trap
Examples "I was set up!" "The innocent man was framed by the police" Used in print (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)If Mahzeer was planning to set_up the prime_minister for Muller he would have to do it in the next few minutes . |
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[ verb ] set up for use
Examples "install the washer and dryer" "We put in a new sink" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes , setting_up the machine_gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol . |
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[ verb ] place
Examples "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" Used in print (Confidential, 9:1...)Pulley had set her up at the Semiramis_Hotel , but she grew impatient waiting for a royal reception and moved to a luxurious apartment to_which the royal pimp had no key . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
Examples "Get the children ready for school!" "prepare for war" "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" |
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