1.
If you set something up , you create or arrange it.
The two sides agreed to set up 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
• set‧ting up
The British government announced the setting up of a special fund.
N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n
2.
If you set up 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 set up a device or piece of machinery, you do the things that are necessary for it to be able to start working.
I set up the computer so that they could work from home.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , also V n P
4.
If you set up 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 set up home or set up shop, you buy a house or business of your own and start living or working there.
They married, and set up 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 set up by someone, they make it seem that you have done something wrong when you have not. ( INFORMAL )
He claimed he had been set up 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