SET UP

transitive verb Date: 13th century 1. to raise to and place in a high position, to place in view ; post , to put forward (as a plan) for acceptance, 2. to place upright ; erect , to assemble the parts of and erect in position , to put (a machine) in readiness or adjustment for an operation, 3. cause , create , bring about , to place in power or in office , 5. to raise from depression ; elate , gratify , to make proud or vain, 6. to put forward or extol as a model, to claim oneself to be , found , inaugurate , 8. to provide with means of making a living , to bring or restore to normal health, to cause (one) to take on a soldierly or athletic appearance especially through drill, to erect (a perpendicular or a figure) on a base in a drawing, 10. to make taut (a stay or hawser), to tighten firmly, to make carefully worked out plans for , 12. to pay for (drinks), to treat (someone) to something, 13. to put in a compromising or dangerous position usually by trickery or deceit, frame 3, to execute one or more plays in preparation for scoring, intransitive verb to come into active operation or use, to begin business, to make pretensions , to become firm or consolidated