Usually means: Arrange or prepare for use.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word set up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. set up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. set-up, set up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. set up: Vocabulary.com
  4. Set-Up, Set-up, set-up, set up: Wordnik
  5. set-up, set (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. set-up, set up: Wiktionary
  7. set-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. set-up, set up: Dictionary.com
  9. The Set_Up (Parks and Recreation), The Set_Up (book), The Set_Up (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. set up: Rhymezone
  11. set-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. set up: Phrasal Verb Page
  13. set up: Free Dictionary
  14. set up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. set-up, set up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Set up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. set up: Legal dictionary
  4. Set up: Financial dictionary

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. set up: Medical dictionary

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. set up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. set-up, set up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. set up: Golfer's Dictionary
  2. Set-up, Set up: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (set up)

verb:  (transitive) To ready for use.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange logically.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to happen.
verb:  (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
verb:  (intransitive) To ready something for use.
verb:  (intransitive) To gel or harden.
verb:  (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
verb:  (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
verb:  (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
verb:  (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
verb:  (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
verb:  (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.
verb:  To profess openly; to make pretensions.
verb:  (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
verb:  (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
verb:  To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
verb:  (obsolete, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
adjective:  In a position to function; ready.

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