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set up

Separable

Establish something, or prepare equipment for use

They set up a small business in 2015.

Prepare equipment so that it is ready to use

I will set the projector up before the meeting.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

The particle: up

This verb belongs to the group ‘making, arranging and starting’.

Others in the group: draw up, make up.