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set asidephrase to keep or intend for a special purposeHe set aside $100 a month for a down payment on a car. allocate, consecrate, dedicate, devote, earmark, give up (to), reserve, save, set by bless, hallow, sanctifycommit, confide, consign, entrust(also intrust)apply, bestow, employ, use set apart ignore, neglectmisapply, misuse to put an end to by formal actionThe company set aside the old strict dress code and allowed employees to dress a little more casually. abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, negate, null, nullify, quash, repeal, rescind, roll back, strike down, vacate, void countermand, override, overrule, overturn, vetoabort, call, call off, drop, recall, retract, reverse, revoke, suspend, withdrawban, enjoin, forbid, outlaw, prohibitdisallow, dismiss, rejectannihilate, break down, eliminate, eradicate, erase, liquidate, remove, throw out, write off do away with enact, lay down, legislateestablish, found, instituteformalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimize, validatepass, ratifyallow, approve, authorize, clear, endorse(also indorse), permit, sanction, warrantcommand, decree, mandate, order, prescribe to get rid of as useless or unwantedThe professional organizer helped us set aside anything we didn't need or want anymore. cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six(or 86), exorcise(also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off)also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload abandon, abdicate, desert, forsakedismiss, kick outabolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out dispose of adopt, embrace, take onemploy, use, utilizehold, hold back, keep, retain to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret placeShe set aside her wedding dress in case her own daughter might want to wear it some day. cache, hoard, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, squirrel (away), stash, stockpile, store, stow, treasure accumulate, acquire, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, pick up, round up, scrape (together)heap, pile, stackconserve, husband, preservebank, coffer, deposit, hold, keep, reserve, retain, save, set by, stock, withholdbury, conceal, ensconce, secrete cast, discard, ditch, dump, fling (off or away), jettison, throw away, throw out, unloadconsume, squander, use up, wastehand out, hand over, relinquish, surrenderblow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spenddeplete, exhaust, expend, impoverishdispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter in 1943 |