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setting asidephrasepresent participle of set aside to keep or intend for a special purposeHe set aside $100 a month for a down payment on a car. allocating, consecrating, dedicating, devoting, earmarking, giving up (to), reserving, saving, setting by blessing, hallowing, sanctifyingcommitting, confiding, consigning, entrusting(also intrusting)applying, bestowing, employing, using setting apart ignoring, neglectingmisapplying, misusing 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. abating, abolishing, abrogating, annulling, avoiding, canceling(or cancelling), disannulling, dissolving, invalidating, negating, nullifying, nulling, quashing, repealing, rescinding, rolling back, striking down, vacating, voiding countermanding, overriding, overruling, overturning, vetoingaborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, retracting, reversing, revoking, suspending, withdrawingbanning, enjoining, forbidding, outlawing, prohibitingdisallowing, dismissing, rejectingannihilating, breaking down, eliminating, eradicating, erasing, liquidating, removing, throwing out, writing off doing away with enacting, laying down, legislatingestablishing, founding, institutingformalizing, legalizing, legitimating, legitimizing, validatingpassing, ratifyingallowing, approving, authorizing, clearing, endorsing(also indorsing), permitting, sanctioning, warrantingcommanding, decreeing, mandating, ordering, prescribing to get rid of as useless or unwantedThe professional organizer helped us set aside anything we didn't need or want anymore. cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing (off)also sluffing (off), throwing away, throwing out, tossing, unloading abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out disposing of adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining 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. caching, hoarding, laying away, laying by, laying in, laying up, putting by, salting away, squirreling (away)(or squirrelling (away)), stashing, stockpiling, storing, stowing, treasuring accumulating, acquiring, amassing, assembling, collecting, concentrating, garnering, gathering, picking up, rounding up, scraping (together)heaping, piling, stackingconserving, husbanding, preservingbanking, coffering, depositing, holding, keeping, reserving, retaining, saving, setting by, stocking, withholdingburying, concealing, ensconcing, secreting casting, discarding, ditching, dumping, flinging (off or away), jettisoning, throwing away, throwing out, unloadingconsuming, squandering, using up, wastinghanding out, handing over, relinquishing, surrenderingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), lavishing, misspending, running through, spendingdepleting, exhausting, expending, impoverishingdispelling, dispersing, dissipating, scattering |