set sth aside
— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
(PURPOSE)
to save something, usually money or time, for a special purpose:
He had some money in an account that he'd set aside for his kids.
[ + to infinitive ] I set aside half an hour every evening to hear Erik read.
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- I set aside some of the soup for Jim to have later.
- We set aside a few dollars a month to buy furniture.
- Could you set aside half an hour this afternoon to talk about Emma?
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Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- bank
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- lay
- lay sth in
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- storage
- store
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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(LEGAL DECISION)
If a judge or court sets aside a previous decision or judgment, they state that it does not now have any legal effect, usually because they consider it to have been wrong:
The Court of Appeal set aside his conviction.
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Judges & juries
- beak
- challenge
- chief justice
- court of inquiry
- dismiss
- empanel
- favour
- foreman
- instruct
- judge
- jurist
- juror
- jury service
- justice
- Justice of the Peace
- rule
- sheriff
- sum
- sum up
- worship
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(IGNORE)
to decide that you will not be influenced by your own feelings or opinions because they are not important at a particular time:
In times of war people tend to set aside political differences.
to ignore or not think about a particular fact or situation while considering a matter:
Setting aside the question of cost, what do you think of the idea in principle?
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Neglecting and ignoring
- beneath the/sb's radar idiom
- block sth out
- brush sth off
- bury/have your head in the sand idiom
- bypass
- lay
- let sth ride idiom
- look straight/right through sb idiom
- lost
- lost in the shuffle idiom
- moulder
- push
- ride
- snub
- step
- step on sb
- sweep sth aside
- there's none so deaf as those who will not hear idiom
- tune
- wave
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