set up

We set up the sprinkler.

Set up my CD collection.

Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

The election was set up!

Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.

Winning the lottery has set them up for life.

After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

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.

Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.

to set up in trade; to set up for oneself

those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part

With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.

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.

Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]