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set up
Meaning
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- To ready for use.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to happen.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To ready something for use.
- To gel or harden.
- 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.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- (informal) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To begin business or a scheme of life.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (obsolete) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
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It eventually set up a subsidiary, Exelixis Plant Sciences, for the agricultural work.