1.
If you set something up, you create or arrange it.
The two sides agreed to ~ a commission to investigate claims...
Tell us when and why you started your business and how you went about setting it up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
setting up
The British government announced the setting up of a special fund.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
2.
If you ~ a temporary structure, you place it or build it somewhere.
They took to the streets, setting up roadblocks of burning tyres...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
3.
If you ~ a device or piece of machinery, you do the things that are necessary for it to be able to start working.
I ~ the computer so that they could work from home.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
4.
If you ~ somewhere or set yourself up somewhere, you establish yourself in a new business or new area.
...the mayor’s scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan...
He worked as a dance instructor in London before setting himself up in Bucharest...
Grandfather set them up in a liquor business.
PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv, V pron-refl P prep/adv, V n P prep/adv
5.
If you ~ home or ~ shop, you buy a house or business of your own and start living or working there.
They married, and ~ home in Ramsgate.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
6.
If something sets up something such as a process, it creates it or causes it to begin.
The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
7.
If you are ~ by someone, they make it seem that you have done something wrong when you have not. (INFORMAL)
He claimed he had been ~ after drugs were discovered at his home...
Maybe Angelo tried to set us up.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V n P
8.
see also set-up