setup

setup
{v.} 1. To provide the money for the necessities for. * /When he was twenty-one, his father set him up in the clothing business./ 2. To establish; start. * /The government has set up many hospitals for veterans of the armed forces./ 3. To make ready for use by putting the parts together or into their right place. * /The men set up the new printing press./ 4. To bring into being; cause. * /Ocean tides are set up by the pull between earth and the moon./ 5. To claim; pretend. * /He set himself up to be a graduate of a medical school, but he was not./ 6. To harm someone by entrapment or some other ruse. * /Joe was actually innocent of the robbery, but his "trusted friends" set him up, so the police found the gun in his car./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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