Set up

The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.

Winning the lottery has set them up for life.

A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.

If you ever need anything, come back here, and I'll set you up!

After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

She set herself up as an interior designer.

They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.

Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.

On 71.05, Portu brilliantly set up Yangel Herrera, only for Marc-André ter Stegen to make a sensational save.

to set up in trade; to set up for oneself

1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part

With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.

When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.

Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."

Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]

Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!