Thesaurus
set up
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of SET UP
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to arrange something in a certain spot or position <set up tables in the living room for the party>
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to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of <set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city>
Synonyms begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start
Related Words author, father, originate; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up); construct, put up; develop, enlarge, expand; endow, finance, fund, subsidize; arrange, organize, systematize, systemize; refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch
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to form by putting together parts or materials <set up the prefabricated shed by following the instructions>
Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
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