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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31. The travelers set up a camp on the river bank.
32. Hours of feverish activity lay ahead. The tents had to be erected, the stalls set up.
33. A fund was set up as a goodwill gesture to survivors and their families.
34. An inquiry was set up to determine the cause of the accident.
35. The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims.
36. A new all-woman market research company has been set up to find out what women think about major news and issues.
37. Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators.
38. Cameras were set up at strategic points along the route.
39. A committee has been set up to organize social events in the college.
40. The government has set up a committee of industrialists and academics to advise it.
41. The Army has set up mechanisms to help jobless ex-soldiers get work.
42. Police have set up an incident room as they begin to investigate this morning's fire.
43. They've set up a plan whereby you can spread the cost over a period.
44. Too much opposition was set up against the government's plan to control wages and prices[Sentencedict], so that they had to cease it.
45. His ultimate goal was to set up his own business.
46. They set up a working party to look into the issue.
47. He left the teaching profession in 1965 to set up his own business.
48. In his speech he proposed that the UN should set up an emergency centre for the environment.
49. Can you imagine that Jack has set up a company of his own?
50. The Government set up a commission to investigate allegations of police violence.
51. A 20 - mile exclusion zone was set up around the power station to guard against further explosions.
52. They set up camp on the verge of the desert.
53. I decided to set up my own business because I was tired of just being a cog in a machine.
54. The government has set up a commission of inquiry into the disturbances at the prison.
55. The company set up its first permanent offices in the city centre.
56. I've set up a meeting for Friday.
57. He set up a trust for his children.
58. He had set up two charitable trusts.
59. She has set up in business as a bookseller.
60. They've set up road blocks around the city.
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.