Set aside
set aside X for Y (verb) - keep X for a special future use Y
set aside X to Y (verb) - use X to do Y
set aside one meeting to discuss the matter
money set aside for a special purpose
set aside some money each month for taxi fares
set aside some time
set aside one weekend in your calendar for the event
set aside disk space for files
the limited funds set aside by the government
one part set aside for the VIP entertainment suite
set aside a regular time each week to do the task
clearly wrong and must just be set aside
set aside for production
rooms set aside for you
farmers set aside 15% of their land in order to receive payments
set aside feelings of personal enmity and animosity
area set aside for women only
set aside 12.7 million against the cost of closing its four furniture stores
set aside anxieties
set aside time
set aside time for doing the task
set aside loan loss provisions against possible future bad debts
$100,000 a year has been aside for this programme
set aside $100,000 per annum
set aside an area
area set aside for smokers
set aside a portion of the government rice stockpile for low-income people
Example sentences:
* "The government will set aside a portion of the state's 2.1-million-tonne rice stockpile to sell at cost price to help ease the burden placed on consumers caused by soaring rice prices."
* "Catherine laid it down that every post should be paid, but the limited funds set aside by the government were rapidly eroded by inflation."
* "An addition to Rotterdam's World Trade Center was built in 1986-;87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite."
* "Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week (perhaps at the weekend) to file all the notes taken during the previous week."
* "If he set aside four hours every day for two months he could get the job done."
* "To that extent that part of the order is plainly wrong and must be set aside."
* " In the city-centre block, there is a ground-floor coffee room with ashtrays, easy chairs and potted plants set aside for smokers.
* "First, set aside time for preparing the meal."
* The banks have set aside billions in loan loss provisions against possible future bad debts, essentially transferring their money from one pocket to another.
* "I believe the rooms have already been set aside for you."
* "Centrally planned production targets required that 2 million hectares be set aside for cotton production each year, with no provision for crop rotation to allow natural pest control; the resulting heavy use of pesticides led to severe problems with soil-borne disease."
* "It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction, and payment of compensation directly to farmers, on condition that all but the smallest farmers set aside 15 per cent of their land from production."
* "The aim is to provide the kind of understanding necessary for improved policy analysis in the future and $100,000 a year has been aside for this programme."
* "The ESRC initially agreed to set aside $8,000 per annum."
* "Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised."
Chief Supt Terry Tasker stressed there was no crowd fighting, adding: `;Some Leeds supporters bought tickets for other parts of the ground and they were flushed out and taken to the enclosure set aside for them.';
* "As well as his bedroom there was one room set aside especially for work."
* "Some retailers set aside an area in the storeroom or warehouse as a goods received area where goods are priced soon after delivery from the supplier."
* "A table or display space set aside may encourage the children to sort out their collection."
* "By breaking down the quarterly or annual outgoings into monthly amounts you will see exactly how much money you have to set aside every month to meet those periodic demands on your cash."
* "As part of your budgeting, set aside some money each month for taxi fares."
* "One evening, Emily set aside some time when she could be alone."
The statutory demand would therefore be set aside as there were no grounds for the demand under s 268(1) (a), Insolvency Act 1986.
* "We are asking all Amnesty supporters, from groups to individuals, trade unionists, students and religious bodies, to set aside one weekend/day/evening in the coming 12 months and…"
* "By way of pay-off, each of the workstations need to set aside 10Mb to 15Mb of disk for log and work files, while the master machine needs to reserve 200Mb."
* "Any personal animosity she might feel for Niall Grant must be set aside."
* "And 21 of the alternative places identified by Ann Widdecombe, parliamentary secretary for social security, are actually in a North Tyneside hostel set aside for women only."
* "Taxable profits, which slipped from 62.1 million in 1991 to 53 million, would have been higher had the group not set aside 12.7 million against the cost of closing its four Chesterman furniture stores, which suffered operating losses of 6.2 million in the year."
* "However, the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside."
