set aside
1. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause (Freq. 6)
- I will earmark this money for your research
- She sets aside time for meditation every day
• Syn:
allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve
• Derivationally related forms:
reserve (for: reserve), earmark (for: earmark), appropriable (for: appropriate), allowance (for: allow)
• Hypernyms:
assign, allot, portion
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
2. make inoperative or stop (Freq. 2)
- suspend payments on the loan
• Syn:
suspend
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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