| Verb | 1. | set up - set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" |
| 2. | set up - make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses" |
| 3. | set up - construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" |
| 4. | set up - get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery" |
| 5. | set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| 6. | set up - begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election" |
| 7. | set up - take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" |
| 8. | set up - produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave" |
| 9. | set up - set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" |
| 10. | set up - place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" |
| 11. | set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election" |
| 12. | set up - erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" |
| 13. | set up - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
| 14. | set up - equip with sails, masts, etc.; "rig a ship" |
| 15. | set up - 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" |
| Adj. | 1. | set up - well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up" |