Synonym: arrange, assemble, effect, effectuate, ensnare, entrap, erect, establish, fix, found, frame, gear up, instal, install, launch, lay out, order, piece, pitch, prepare, put, put in, put together, put up, raise, ready, rear, rig, set, tack, tack together. Similar words: let up, get up, meet up with, return, in return, take turns, put up, sit up. Meaning: v. 1. set up or found 2. create by putting components or members together 3. construct, build, or erect 4. get ready for a particular purpose or event 5. put into a proper or systematic order 6. begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc. 7. take or catch as if in a snare or trap 8. produce 9. set up for use 10. place 11. arrange the outcome of by means of deceit 12. erect and fasten 13. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events 14. equip with sails or masts 15. make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. adj. well established and ready to function.
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151. They set up a double-cross to cheat him of his money.
152. Jacques Delors wants a system set up to channel funds to the poor countries.
153. She set up a charitable fund in her father's memory.
154. She set up her charity to reach out to the thousands of homeless on the streets.
155. I set up the computer so that they could work from home.
156. A monthly forum was set up to deal with all issues appertaining to Everton Park.
157. They discovered it was a phantom organization set up for the processing of drug profits.
158. When the sun started to go down, he stopped and set up his tent.
158. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
159. She got her fingers burnt when she set up a business and had all her money stolen by her partner.
160. The authorities have been asked to set up a commission to investigate the murders.
161. The system is set up but it needs some fine-tuning.
162. The scheme has been set up to help homeless people.
163. He wants to set up a profit-making company, owned mostly by the university.
164. Regulars at his local pub have set up a fund to help out.
165. Camps were set up to shelter the flotsam and jetsam of the war.
166. We took the plunge and set up our own business.
167. The cats set up a frightful yowling when the dog appeared.
168. A committee was set up under the chairmanship of Edmund Compton.
169. The project was set up under the aegis of the university.
170. The political apparatus set up by the government is used to settle industrial disputes.
171. He has recently set up his own research outfit, which has as yet no name.
172. The government has set up a working party on prison overcrowding.
173. Many had come off the dole and set up their own small businesses.
174. The company has set up its European headquarters in the UK.
175. We went on a shopping trip and got him all set up for the new term.
176. The government has set up some half-baked scheme for training teachers on the job.
177. He claimed he had been set up after drugs were discovered at his home.
178. The scheme offers free advice to people wanting to set up in business.
179. They set up an influential committee to advise workers on how to economise in food.
180. The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
More similar words: let up, get up, meet up with, return, in return, take turns, put up, sit up, eat up, cut up, in return for, light up, built up, shoot up, start up, set, put up with, upset, set out, set off, asset, set down, settle, closet, setting, set back, set about, set free, set forth, settle for.