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  • 31set out one's stall — ► set out one s stall display one s abilities or attributes. Main Entry: ↑set …

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  • 32set out your stall — british phrase to show your intentions or abilities clearly The politicians were setting out their stalls for the election. Thesaurus: to make plans or arrangementssynonym Main entry: stall …

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  • 33set out for — leave, embark    Then we set out for Pluto, where it s much colder than the arctic …

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  • 34set out — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. initiate, start, commence; see begin 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To go about the initial step in doing (something): approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, lead… …

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  • 35set-out — n. (Colloq.) 1. Preparations. 2. Clique, set, company. 3. Equipage, turn out, display …

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  • 36set out — 1》 begin a journey. 2》 aim or intend to do something. → set …

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  • 37set out — I. (Active.) 1. Adorn, decorate, embellish. 2. Allot, assign. 3. Publish, proclaim, issue. 4. Raise, equip, furnish. 5. Show, display, recommend. 6. Show, prove. 7. Recite, state. II …

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  • 38set out — To start on a journey. To commence work upon a project to be accomplished. To set forth. To allege verbatim; to recite the very words of a document in a pleading. First Nat. Bank of Chadron v Engelbercht, 58 Neb 639, 641, 79 NW 556 …

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  • 39set out — begin to pursue a certain goal or direction; undertake, attempt; begin a journey; lay out in a systematical fashion, arrange; plant; display for sale or exhibition …

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  • 40To set out — Set Set (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root… …

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