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set oneself up as1Establish oneself in (a particular occupation): she set herself up as an acupuncturist in Leamington...- She sets herself up as Botswana's only female private detective.
- Later, he sets himself up as a one-man security firm and is hired to guard a factory whose female director starts an affair with him.
- In the fourth verse we see her trying to find a new job, in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia trying to learn some of those nasty tricks of the trade and setting herself up as a fence for religious and historical artifacts.
1.1Claim to be or act like a specified kind of person: he set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards...- I do not need bureaucrats or faculty members from distant fields telling me what to do, especially when they set themselves up as the ultimate arbiters of ethics and professional conduct.
- Those post-war idealists were setting themselves up as communicators in opposition to persuasion, which was seen as a manipulative way of treating other people.
- Anyway, I'm in no way setting myself up as an expert.
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