# set up
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: sĕt'ŭp'

### Verb

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)
* (transitive) To ready for use.
    We set up the sprinkler.
* (transitive) To arrange logically.
    Set up my CD collection.
* (transitive) To cause to happen.
    Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
** 2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport‎:England's famous victory sets up a meeting with Sweden in Samara on Saturday
* (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
    I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
* (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
    The election was set up!
* (intransitive) To ready something for use.
* (intransitive) To gel or harden.
    Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
* (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
    The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.
* (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
    Winning the lottery has set them up for life.
    A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.
** 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:If you ever need anything, come back here, and I'll set you up!
* (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
    After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
    She set herself up as an interior designer.
* (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
    Synonyms: frame, frame up, put up
    They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.
* (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
** 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 286–7:M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.
* (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
* (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
** 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport‎:Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.
** 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:On 71.05, Portu brilliantly set up Yangel Herrera, only for Marc-André ter Stegen to make a sensational save.
* (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.
    to set up in trade; to set up for oneself
* To profess openly; to make pretensions.
** 1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience
    those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part
* (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
** 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎:With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.
* (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
** 1950, Jack Dempsey, chapter 23, in Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense:When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.
** 1997 September 24, Joe Duffy, “TRIBUTES TO THE MAN AND THE BOXER”, in Hartford Courant‎:Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."
* To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
** 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]
* (obsolete, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)

#### Synonyms

* (to ready): install, put in, ready, prepare, assemble, configure

#### Derived terms

* set up camp
* set up one's bristles
* set up one's rest
* set up one's staff
* set up shop
* set up someone's birse

#### Translations

Azerbaijani: quraşdırmaq (az)
Bulgarian: установявам (bg) (ustanovjavam)
Catalan: preparar (ca), muntar (ca)
Czech: připravit (cs)
Dutch: bereiden (nl), voorbereiden (nl), opzetten (nl), klaarzetten (nl)
Egyptian: (grg)
Esperanto: akomodi (eo)
Estonian: paigaldama
Finnish: asentaa (fi), valmistella (fi), ottaa käyttöön
French: mettre en place (fr), installer (fr)
German: aufbauen (de), für den Einsatz vorbereiten (de), einrichten (de), installieren (de)
Hungarian: beállít (hu), felállít (hu), összerak (hu)
Irish: cuir ar bun
Italian: preparare (it), installare (it), approntare (it), mettere a punto, creare (it)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دامەزراندن (damezrandin)
Latin: sistō (la)
Maori: whakakaupapa
Neapolitan: apparà
Ottoman Turkish: دوزمك (düzmek)
Polish: przygotowywać (pl) impf, przygotować (pl) pf
Portuguese: preparar (pt)
Russian: устана́вливать (ru) impf (ustanávlivatʹ), установи́ть (ru) pf (ustanovítʹ)
Spanish: disponer (es), montar (es) :

### Adjective

set up (comparative more set up, superlative most set up)
* In a position to function; ready.
    Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

#### Synonyms

* (In a position to function) prepared, ready

#### Translations
### Related terms

* setup (noun)

### Anagrams

* TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset