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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121. The main rebel groups have agreed to join in a meeting to set up a transitional government.
122. They set up an influential committee to advise workers on how to economize in food.
123. It is natural for the shopkeeper to feel annoyed when the hypermarket is set up close to his shop.
124. She took out a bank loan and set up on her own.
125. The committee was set up at the behest of the president.
126. She set up shop as a bookseller in the High Street.
127. Originally the charity was set up to help orphans in urban areas.
128. The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.
129. She wanted to set up her own company to invest in films.
130. The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men.
131. The company has set up joint-venture pay-TV channels in Belgium, Spain,[Sentence dictionary] and Germany.
132. They broke with the Communist Party and set up a new party.
133. We used the money to set up an irrigation project.
134. The project was set up on the initiative of a local landowner.
135. He teamed up with a friend and set up a trade business.
136. The Government set up a working party to look into the problem.
137. A temporary diversion has been set up to take traffic away from the accident site.
138. The organization has been set up to lobby the government on behalf of all the people who have lost their pensions.
139. Ten model farms have been set up to showcase modern production methods.
140. The tribunal had been set up to arbitrate in the dispute.
141. I need £2000 to set up the business, but I suppose £1500 would do at a pinch.
142. Some groups want to set up an Islamic state on the Iranian model.
143. The welfare state was set up to provide a safety net for the poor and needy.
144. Nick broke with his father to set up his own firm.
145. A new stadium, which could hold a hundred thousand people, was planned to set up.
146. Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
147. I couldn't afford more than a broom cupboard to set up office in.
148. The Government has set up a committee under the chairmanship of Professor Roy Goode.
149. He and a partner set up on their own and built a successful fashion company.
150. They got married and set up home together in Hull.
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.