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单词 set something up
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set something up

1Place or erect something in position: police set up a roadblock on Lower Thames Street...
  • An all points bulletin was immediately issued for the car and several roadblocks were set up, but the police came up empty-handed.
  • In other areas, police road blocks were set up near polls to intimidate voters.
  • Microphones and lights were set up and cameras positioned in readiness.

Synonyms

erect, put up, construct, build, raise, elevate;
place, put (in position)
2Establish a business, institution, or other organization: she set up the business with a £4,000 bank loan clergy have a prime role in setting up schools...
  • Every working day this year 80 businesses will be set up, so that by the end of the year there will be 20,000 new enterprises fighting it out, according to Bank of Ireland.
  • Building societies were set up as mutual institutions, which means that those with accounts become members and have certain rights to vote on issues affecting the society.
  • Some of our main institutions were set up under British occupation in the 1920s, and there is still a British cemetery near Basra.

Synonyms

establish, start, begin, get going, initiate, institute, found, create, bring into being, inaugurate, lay the foundations of
2.1Make the arrangements necessary for something: he asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president...
  • Following six months of meetings and negotiations, an arrangement was set up whereby up to 10,000 farmers had either part or the whole of their debts written off.
  • Interim arrangements will be set up to cover those currently paying into other acceptable future savings vehicles.
  • However, an arranged marriage was set up with a cousin, whom she had never met before, in Pakistan when she was 19.

Synonyms

arrange, organize, fix, fix up, fix a time for, schedule, timetable, sort out, line up
3Begin making a loud sound: a colony of monkeys had set up a racket in the canopy
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