How to pronounce “set up”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To ready for use.
• (transitive) To arrange logically.
• (transitive) To cause to happen.
• (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
• (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
• (intransitive) To ready something for use.
• (intransitive) To gel or harden.
• (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.
• (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
• (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
• (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
• (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
• (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
• (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
• (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.
• To profess openly; to make pretensions.
• (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
• (boxing) 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, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
• [Adjective]
• In a position to function; ready.

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