English phrasal verb

set up

To arrange or create something.

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When Mukesh was setting up the refinery and I was building the township here, Anant was less than two years old.

I got interest in jingles and I was setting up a jingle studio, which had 16 tracks.

And so I'd come into the office and we'd have our little, you know, Mac, and they'd say, "Oh, we set up a webpage.

So a real insight into why you and Prince Harry set up the Royal Foundation.

So all of these things that we really needed to focus on, and that's why we set up the Seven Fund.

And that was sort of the intention of going public with the illness, and then also subsequently setting up the Live, Love, Laugh Foundation.

We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark.

My personal passion is for preschool education, where we've set up a $2 billion day one fund to provide early education to disadvantaged children.