set up something/someone
— phrasal verb with set us/set/verb
(ESTABLISH)
to establish or create something:
I’d be willing to set up a seminar if I thought people would come.
We were so impressed that we set up a second interview for him.
If you set someone up, you establish someone on a particular path through life esp. by paying for something or supplying money:
His father set him up in the family business.
Thomson set himself up in an off-campus lab so he could do the research.