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sets aside
phrase
present tense third-person singular of set aside
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1
to keep or intend for a special purpose
- He set aside $100 a month for a down payment on a car.
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2
to put an end to by formal action
- The company set aside the old strict dress code and allowed employees to dress a little more casually.
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3
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- The professional organizer helped us set aside anything we didn't need or want anymore.
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- cashiers,
- casts (off),
- chucks,
- deep-sixes,
- discards,
- ditches,
- dumps,
- eighty-sixes
- (or 86es),
- exorcises
- (also exorcizes),
- flings (off or away),
- jettisons,
- junks,
- lays by,
- loses,
- pitches,
- rejects,
- scraps,
- sheds,
- shucks (off),
- sloughs (off)
- also sluffs (off),
- throws away,
- throws out,
- tosses,
- unloads
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4
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
- She set aside her wedding dress in case her own daughter might want to wear it some day.
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“Sets aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sets%20aside. Accessed 28 Jan. 2022.
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