set up

Verb

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
  • Get the children ready for school!
    
  • prepare for war
    
  • I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
    

• equip with sails or masts
  • rig a ship
    

• arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
  • arrange my schedule
    
  • set up one's life
    
  • I put these memories with those of bygone times
    

• erect and fasten
  • pitch a tent
    

• arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
  • rig an election
    

• place
  • Her manager had set her up at the Ritz
    

• set up for use
  • install the washer and dryer
    
  • We put in a new sink
    

• produce
  • The scientists set up a shock wave
    

• take or catch as if in a snare or trap
  • I was set up!
    
  • The innocent man was framed by the police
    

• begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
  • set up an election
    

• put into a proper or systematic order
  • arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
    

• get ready for a particular purpose or event
  • set up an experiment
    
  • set the table
    
  • lay out the tools for the surgery
    

• construct, build, or erect
  • Raise a barn
    

• create by putting components or members together
  • She pieced a quilt
    
  • He tacked together some verses
    
  • They set up a committee
    

• set up or found
  • She set up a literacy program
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  fix , prepare , ready , gear up , set , rig , arrange , put , order , pitch , install , instal , establish , put in , effect , effectuate , ensnare , entrap , frame , lay out , raise , erect , rear , put up , assemble , piece , put together , tack , tack together , found , launch
• Antonyms: 
  disarrange , level , raze , rase , dismantle , tear down , take down , pull down , disassemble , take apart , break up , break apart , abolish , get rid of