set up🔊

To make ready for use.

To arrange logically.

To cause to happen.

To trap or ensnare.

To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

To prepare or get ready.

To gel or harden.

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.

To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

To establish someone in a business or position.

(criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them. +

To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

(sports) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

To begin business or a scheme of life.

To profess openly; to make pretensions.

To found; to start (a business, scheme)

(boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.

To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.

(obsolete, printing) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset. +

In a position to function; ready.