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set up
English
- 🔊 get ready for a particular purpose or event“set up an experiment”
- 🔊 begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.“set up an election”
- 🔊 arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events“arrange my schedule”
- 🔊 put into a proper or systematic order“arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order”
- 🔊 erect and fasten“pitch a tent”
- 🔊 set up or found“She set up a literacy program”
- 🔊 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!”
- 🔊 equip with sails or masts“rig a ship”
- 🔊 place“Her manager had set her up at the Ritz”
- 🔊 produce“The scientists set up a shock wave”
- 🔊 set up for use“install the washer and dryer”
- 🔊 create by putting components or members together“She pieced a quilt”
- 🔊 construct, build, or erect“Raise a barn”
- 🔊 take or catch as if in a snare or trap“I was set up!”
Spanish
- 🔊 montar to set up
- 🔊 erigir to set up, establish
- 🔊 levantar to set up, found (a business)
- 🔊 hacer gancho to set up, pair off, matchmake