Definition of Set-up

Verb

  • make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
    "Get the children ready for school!"
    "prepare for war"
    "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
    - gear up
  • equip with sails or masts
    "rig a ship"
  • arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
    "arrange my schedule"
    "set up one's life"
    "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
  • erect and fasten
    "pitch a tent"
  • arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
    "rig an election"
  • place
    "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
  • set up for use
    "install the washer and dryer"
    "We put in a new sink"
    - put in
  • produce
    "The scientists set up a shock wave"
  • take or catch as if in a snare or trap
    "I was set up!"
    "The innocent man was framed by the police"
  • begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
    "set up an election"
  • put into a proper or systematic order
    "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"
  • get ready for a particular purpose or event
    "set up an experiment"
    "set the table"
    "lay out the tools for the surgery"
    - lay out
  • construct, build, or erect
    "Raise a barn"
    - put up
  • create by putting components or members together
    "She pieced a quilt"
    "He tacked together some verses"
    "They set up a committee"
    - put together - tack together
  • set up or found
    "She set up a literacy program"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

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Unscramble set_up

38 unscramble word found using the letters set_up.

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