SET ASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set aside mean? 

• SET ASIDE (verb)
  The verb SET ASIDE has 3 senses:

1. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

2. make inoperative or stop

3. annul (a legal decision)

  Familiarity information: SET ASIDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET ASIDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

allow; appropriate; earmark; reserve; set aside

Context example:

She sets aside time for meditation every day

Hypernyms (to "set aside" is one way to...):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make inoperative or stop

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

set aside; suspend

Context example:

suspend payments on the loan

Hypernyms (to "set aside" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Annul (a legal decision)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

the court set aside the conviction

Hypernyms (to "set aside" is one way to...):

annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void (declare invalid)

Domain category:

law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A sum of money or other resources set aside for a specific purpose.

(Funding, NCI Thesaurus)

My groom and my page sleep out of the house, and may be set aside altogether.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you receive payment for your ideas at work, by all means, set aside time to generate new ones, for they will be superb.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A piece of land set aside for public use.

(Park, NCI Thesaurus)

Casks of choice wine had been rolled out from the cellars, and starving peasants squatted, goblet in hand, draining off vintages which De Rochefort had set aside for noble and royal guests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance; and an appeal so worded could not be set aside without a grave responsibility.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Money or securities set aside to cover unexpected conditions or losses.

(Contingency Fund, NCI Thesaurus)

I was prepared for him again to set aside my question, and was surprised at the readiness of his reply.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics.

(Cache, NCI Thesaurus)

Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)