Usually means: Place an object on surface.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. set down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. set down: Merriam-Webster
  3. set down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. set down: Vocabulary.com
  5. set-down: Wordnik
  6. set down: Wiktionary
  7. set down: Dictionary.com
  8. set down: Rhymezone
  9. set down: FreeDictionary.org
  10. set down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. set down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. set down: Legal dictionary
  2. set down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (set down)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
verb:  (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
verb:  (transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
verb:  (aviation, ambitransitive) To land.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.
verb:  (transitive) To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.

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