Set Up

Multi-sense: place upright; elevate to authority; claim to be; assemble or erect; establish; provide capital for; treat to drinks; stimulate; plan a deception; bring about.

Examples:

  • They set up a new charity for the homeless.

Origin: c. 1200 (senses 1, 4); late 1300s (sense 2); early 1400s (sense 5)

Synonyms: establish, found, arrange, frame (sense 10)