1.
If you set something up, you create or arrange it.
The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims...
Tell us when and why you started your business and how you went about setting it up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
• setting up
The British government announced the setting up of a special fund.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
2.
If you set up a temporary structure, you place it or build it somewhere.
They took to the streets, setting up roadblocks of burning tyres...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
3.
If you set up a device or piece of machinery, you do the things that are necessary for it to be able to start working.
I set up the computer so that they could work from home.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
4.
If you set up somewhere or set yourself up somewhere, you establish yourself in a new business or new area.
...the mayor's scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan...
He worked as a dance instructor in London before setting himself up in Bucharest...
Grandfather set them up in a liquor business.
PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv, V pron-refl P prep/adv, V n P prep/adv
5.
If you set up home or set up shop, you buy a house or business of your own and start living or working there.
They married, and set up home in Ramsgate.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
6.
If something sets up something such as a process, it creates it or causes it to begin.
The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
7.
If you are set up by someone, they make it seem that you have done something wrong when you have not. (INFORMAL)
He claimed he had been set up after drugs were discovered at his home...
Maybe Angelo tried to set us up.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V n P
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