set up

Verb

1. (transitive) To ready for use.
2. (transitive) To arrange logically.
3. (transitive) To cause to happen.
4. (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
5. (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
6. (intransitive) To ready something for use.
7. (intransitive) To gel or harden.
8. (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
9. (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
10. (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
11. (informal, transitive) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
12. (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
13. (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
14. (transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
15. (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.
16. To profess openly; to make pretensions.
17. (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
18. To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
19. To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
20. (obsolete) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)

Adj

In a position to function; ready.

Synonyms

establish

found

erect

install

put up

set

create

build

make

raise

arrange

construct

place

form

organize

put

institute

instal

assemble

start

organise

fix

put in

pitch

constitute

appoint

originate

rig

put together

mount

lay

open

cause

launch

ready

frame

plant

🌱

build up

erected

produce

do

established

lay out

initiate

generate

go up

prepare

entrap

compose

effectuate

Translations

installer

preparar

poser

errichten

dresser

veroorzaken

machen

causar

faire

producir

installare

construire

établir

bauen

herstellen

Sentences

It eventually set up a subsidiary , Exelixis Plant Sciences , for the agricultural work .