TO SET UP

Definition: TO SET UP

TO SET UP

1. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a pillar. (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. ``I will . . . set up the throne of David over Israel.'' --2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice. I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. --Dryden. (g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO SET UP

You mean you got the Galactic Trig to set up an 800 light year transporter beam just because you changed your mind (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch)

We have those helicopters you requested, and we'd like to set up a foward command next to yours (The Towering Inferno; writing credit: Richard Martin Stern; Thomas N. Scortia)

You can't help thinking what a wonderful place it would be to set up a machine gun (Last of the Summer Wine; writing credit: Roy Clarke)

We're gonna put the word out how you tried to set up the blacks, Eddie (Cagney & Lacey; writing credit: Sagar Sarhadi)

How to Set Up a Session and an E-Meter (1976)

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Books

• School Partnerships Handbook: How to Set Up and Administer Programs With Business, Government and Your Community (reference)

• The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar (reference)

• The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation (reference)

• International Callback Book: An Insider's View, How to Save 65% on Your International Telephone Calls, How to Set Up an International Callback Company (reference)

• Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System (reference)

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Alaska Peninsula - Getting ready to set up. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Triangulation party preparing to set up observing tent Arctic Field Party of Hubert A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Photographer getting ready to set up for shot of Mount Erebus across sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Janice Richardson (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, works with Earth Team Volunteer Amber Bilak to set up surveying equipment. [Slide 97CS3150]. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month. They have to clear it themselves. No water, lights, or sanitary facilities. Near Canal Point, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

'Tis not a change from the present state, which perhaps corruption or decay has introduced, that makes an inroad upon the government, but the tendency of it to injure or oppress the people, and to set up one part or party, with a distinction from, and an unequal subjection of the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was apparently a fine occasion to get in a little sermon, and to set up the bishop above the convict in order to make an impression upon his mind

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Health

If you miss a shot, call your doctor or clinic right away to set up a new appointment. (references)

Remember, you and your child and the health professionals are partners in your child's health care. You may want to set up a meeting with the health care team, which may include nurses, doctors, social workers, nutritionists, and others, to discuss your concerns. (references)

Business

TDM has been negotiating with gateway hub owners to set up VSAT service in partnership. (references)

Even some Russian companies had to set up their production facilities out of the country. (references)

Some countries are actively cooperating with Chinese counterparts to set up joint ventures. (references)

Children

India

The program aimed to set up an additional 600 schools for the remaining 29,000 children by year's end. (references)

Togo

In November traditional chiefs met and agreed to set up watchdog committees and conduct awareness campaigns against the abuse of children, especially trafficking, confinement in voodoo shrines, FGM, torture, forced marriages, and other forms of sexual harassment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Switzerland

The repealed provision was introduced in 1874 a year after Pope Pius IX unsuccessfully attempted to set up a diocese in the Reformed (Protestant) city of Geneva. (references)

Economic History

China

China continues to set up state-owned enterprises in the media sector. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The move has sparked a number of foreign companies to set up branch offices in Saudi Arabia. (references)

Ecuador

It is normal for foreign corporations entering into this type of agreement to set up branches. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Many foreign NGO's report being charged large fees by Government officials to get visas for foreign staff, to set up offices, and to establish programs. (references)

India

Uttar Pradesh, the state with the largest number of human rights complaints to the NHRC, has stated its intention to set up a state human rights commission but has not yet done so. The state human rights commission established in Jammu and Kashmir by an act of the state legislature has no power to investigate independently alleged human rights violations committed by security force members. (references)

Cuba

Project Varela proposes five areas where laws should be changed based on existing constitutional rights, including the right to free expression, the right to free association, amnesty for those jailed for "political motives," the right to set up businesses, and a new electoral law allowing citizens to vote for multiple candidates as a better form of "participatory democracy." The Government steadfastly has rejected international human rights monitoring. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

During 1999 the Government focused on negotiations over a commission to set up a political entity (Nunavik) for Quebec's Inuit. (references)

Minorities

China

In April, immediately after the start of the "strike hard" campaign, 25 political activists in Kashgar prefecture were arrested for allegedly conspiring to set up an "Eastern Turkestan Republic." Charges ranged from "endangering state security" to "illegally setting up an organization," although human rights groups state that no specific act committed by the group was mentioned. (references)

Political Economy

EL SALVADOR

The Salvadoran Office of Investment Promotion reported that 14 companies had made commitments in 2001 to set up new operations in El Salvador, mostly maquila plants. (references)

Trade

Eritrea

Banks were allowed to set up foreign currency accounts and make foreign currency loans. (references)

Bahrain

However, it needs approval by the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce to set up without a local agent. (references)

Egypt

The ability to fulfill local content requirements is no longer required to obtain an approval to set up an assembly project. (references)

Women

Taiwan

The law requires all city and county governments to set up domestic violence prevention and control centers. (references)

Libya

For example, many educated young couples prefer to set up their own households, rather than move in with their parents, and view polygyny with scorn. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

Unions other than the SPSI have alleged difficulties in getting companies to set up a checkoff system for their members. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "TO SET UP": To set or To set up ♦ to set up one's rest ♦ to set up one's staff ♦ To set up the rigging. Additional references.

Chinese 

辦 (to deal with, to do, to go about, to handle, to manage, to run), 設置 (to install), 設立 (to establish), 設 (to arrange, to display, to establish, to found), 搞 (to do, to get hold of, to go in for, to make, to take care of), 安�' (to arrange, to plan), 建 (to build, to construct, to establish, to found). (various references)

Danish

vedtage at nedsætte interparlamentariske delegationer (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), placering i provinsen (to set up in the provinces), nedsætte interparlamentariske delegationer (to set up interparliamentary delegations), indstille en togvej (to prepare a route, to set up a route), fastlaegge en togvej (to divert a train, to prepare a route, to set up a route, to switch over a train), anlæg af bogholderi (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

Dutch

tot instelling van interparlementarie delegatiesbesluiten (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), spreiding (decentralisation, dispersal, dispersion, diverging, spread, standard deviation, to set up in the provinces), interparlementaire delegaties instellen (to set up interparliamentary delegations), het opzetten van een boekhouding (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger), een rijweg instellen (to prepare a route, to set up a route). (various references)

Finnish

aloittaa kirjanpito (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

French

ouvrir des livres (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger), délocalisation en province (to set up in the provinces), décider la constitution de délégations interparlementaires (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), constituer des délégations interparlementaires (to set up interparliamentary delegations), établir un itinéraire (to prepare a route, to set up a route). (various references)

German

interparlamentarische Delegationen bilden (to set up interparliamentary delegations), in die Provinzen verlagern (to set up in the provinces), Einrichtung der Bücher (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger), eine Fahrstraße festlegen (to prepare a route, to set up a route), eine Fahrstraße einstellen (to prepare a route, to set up a route), die Einrichtung interparlamentarischer Delegationen beschliessen (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations). (various references)

Greek 

καθορίζω δρομολόγιο (to prepare a route, to set up a route), συνιστώ διακοινοβουλευτικές αντιπροσωπείες (to set up interparliamentary delegations), σχεδιάζω δρομολόγιο (to prepare a route, to set up a route), άνοιγμα λογιστικών βιβλίων (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

Hungarian

felerősít (to fix, to hitch up, to intensify), beöltöztet, beképzeltté tesz (to conceit, to inflate), cikket kiszed, dicsőít (to boast, to chant, to emblazon, to eulogize, to extol, to glamorize, to glorify, to laud, to praise), egészséget helyrehoz, elindít (initiate, launch, set off, start, to actuate, to despatch, to hop, to initiate, to launch, to set in motion, to set sg afloat, to set sg on feet), elkezd (commence, inchoate, to commence, to inchoate, to initiate, to put in hand, to start), erősen meghúz, felállít (activate, equip, erect, post, raise, rig up, stick up, to cock, to elevate, to erect, to line up, to post, to rear, to rig up, to stick up, to upend), épületet emel, felemel (boost, elevate, exalt, heighten, levitate, lift up, peak, put up, raise, take up, to boost, to elevate, to exalt, to heighten, to hold up, to jack up, to pull up, to purchase, to sublime, to uplift, tuck up, upheave, uplift, upraise), szervez (arrange, fix up, organize, to get up, to institute), felmagasít, felrak (put on, set up, to apply, to lay on, to put on), felsegít (to get up, to help in, to help up), felvidít (cheer up, delight, exhilarate, freshen up, gladden, jollify, joy, rejoice, to brighten, to buck sy up, to cheer, to cheer up, to comfort, to elevate, to enlighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to freshen, to gladden, to jolly), hangot ad (to sound, to toot), hangot emel, helyrehoz (build up, readjust, recondition, recover, redo, supply, to piece up, to put right, to recompense, to recondition, to rectify, to recuperate, to redeem, to remedy, to retrieve, to set right, to straighten up, to true, to true up), létesít (activate, charter, found, instal, install, make, to erect, to establish, to initiate, to institute, to originate, to rig up), magasra rak, megsegít (help, to aid, to succour), felépít (build up, to build up, to put up, to rear, to throw up, upbuild). (various references)

Italian

stabilire un itinerario (to prepare a route, to set up a route), decidere la costituzione di delegazioni interparlamentari (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), decentrare a livello provinciale (to set up in the provinces), costituire delegazioni interparlamentari (to set up interparliamentary delegations), compilare un itinerario (to prepare a route, to set up a route), apertura dei libri contabili (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

組み立てる (to assemble, to construct), 祭り上�'る (to kick upstairs), 押し立てる (to support), 押っ立てる (to raise), 構える　, 構える , 並べる (to line up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしたてる (to support), おったてる (to raise), ならべる (to line up), くみたてる (to assemble, to construct), まつりあ�'る (to kick upstairs), かまえる. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay etsay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

descentralizado para a província (to set up in the provinces), decidir constituir delegações interparlamentares (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), constituir delegaciones interparlamentarias (to set up interparliamentary delegations), abertura de livros (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

Spanish

traslado a provincias (to set up in the provinces), establecer un itinerario (to prepare a route, to set up a route), decidir la constitución de delegaciones interparlamentarias (to decide to set up interparliamentary delegations), constituir delegaciones interparlamentarias (to set up interparliamentary delegations). (various references)

Swedish

lägga upp böckerna (to open up books of account, to set up the books, to set up the general ledger). (various references)

constituo. (various references)

uzdasta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outset, setout.

-2 letters: estop, pesto, petto, poets, pouts, putto, putts, setup, spout, stope, stopt, stoup, stout, stupe, topes, totes, touse, touts, upset.

-3 letters: epos, opes, opts, opus, oust, outs, peso, pest, pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pout, puts, putt, sept, sett, soup, spot, spue, step, stet, stop, suet, supe, test, tets, toes, tope.

+1 letter: outslept, outspelt, outspent, poutiest.

+2 letters: autotypes, octuplets, outpities, postulate, poussette, proustite, subpotent, unspotted.

+3 letters: autotypies, corruptest, outpitches, phototubes, pirouettes, portentous, postulated, postulates, pothunters, poussetted, poussettes, prostitute, proustites, waterspout.

+4 letters: computerist, counterstep, countertops, deputations, expostulate, impetuosity, outcompetes, outpatients, outsprinted, outstripped, petrolatums, postpuberty, poussetting, pretentious, prostituted, prostitutes, repetitious, reputations, tempestuous, waterspouts.

+5 letters: autotrophies, computerists, contemptuous, counterparts, counterplots, countersteps, expostulated, expostulates, interruptors, luteotropins, outpopulates, permutations, perpetuators, portentously, portmanteaus, portraitures, postconquest, posteruptive, postfracture, postgraduate, promptitudes, steatopygous, stupefaction, superpatriot, superstation, superstition, teleutospore, vituperators.