SET UP (1)

set up = start (a business, a committee, an institution, a home)

examples:

• He set up a very successful business on the island.
• They set up a new school in the village for local children.
• The two brothers set up a company together in 2009.
• After their marriage Mary and Tom set up their home in a nice village away from city life.
• They set up a shop that sold fishing equipment.
• He inherited a fortune and set up a home for abandoned children.