set up

• enPR: sĕt'ŭp'

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)

1. To ready something for use.

   We set up the sprinkler.

2. Logically order.

   Set up my CD collection.

3. To cause to happen

   Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

   • 2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     England's famous victory sets up a meeting with Sweden in Samara on Saturday

4. To trap or ensnare.

   I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

5. Arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

   The election was set up!

6. To gel or harden.

   Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

7. to provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

   Winning the lottery has set them up for life.

   A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.

8. to establish someone in a business or position.

   After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

   She set herself up as an interior designer.

9. (informal) to trick someone in order to make them do something.

   They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

10. To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:

      M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.

11. To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
12. (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
    • 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport‎:

      Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.

13. (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.

    to set up in trade; to set up for oneself

14. To profess openly; to make pretensions.
    • Jonathan Swift (Can we date this quote?)

      Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.

15. To found; to start (a business, scheme)
    • 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎:

      With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.

• (to ready): install, put in, ready, prepare, assemble, configure

• set up shop

set up (comparative more set up, superlative most set up)

1. In a position to function; ready.

   Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

• (In a position to function) prepared, ready

• setup (noun)

• puets, spute, stupe, upset