"set store by" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets store by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting store by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set store by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set store by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> store by"
      },
      "expansion": "set store by (third-person singular simple present sets store by, present participle setting store by, simple past and past participle set store by)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We live in a society that sets great store by science and technology.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Commanding presences”, in Modern Railways, pages 292–293",
          "text": "[...] we rather wonder whether too much store is set on intellectual as against executive ability as a pre-requisite in the good railway officer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To believe that something is very necessary or important; to value highly."
      ],
      "id": "en-set_store_by-en-verb-fkBdUWZG",
      "links": [
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "highly",
          "highly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To believe that something is very necessary or important; to value highly."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "There are many variations"
        },
        {
          "word": "using various head verbs such as put"
        },
        {
          "word": "keep"
        },
        {
          "word": "etc. and final preposition by"
        },
        {
          "word": "in"
        },
        {
          "word": "on"
        },
        {
          "word": "and often inserting great"
        },
        {
          "word": "much before store"
        },
        {
          "word": "I put great store in his natural abilities"
        },
        {
          "word": "lay store by"
        },
        {
          "word": "put store by"
        },
        {
          "word": "put store in"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
          "word": "重視"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhòngshì",
          "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
          "word": "重视"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
          "word": "pitää tärkeänä"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "set store by"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets store by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting store by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set store by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set store by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> store by"
      },
      "expansion": "set store by (third-person singular simple present sets store by, present participle setting store by, simple past and past participle set store by)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We live in a society that sets great store by science and technology.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Commanding presences”, in Modern Railways, pages 292–293",
          "text": "[...] we rather wonder whether too much store is set on intellectual as against executive ability as a pre-requisite in the good railway officer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To believe that something is very necessary or important; to value highly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "highly",
          "highly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To believe that something is very necessary or important; to value highly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "There are many variations"
    },
    {
      "word": "using various head verbs such as put"
    },
    {
      "word": "keep"
    },
    {
      "word": "etc. and final preposition by"
    },
    {
      "word": "in"
    },
    {
      "word": "on"
    },
    {
      "word": "and often inserting great"
    },
    {
      "word": "much before store"
    },
    {
      "word": "I put great store in his natural abilities"
    },
    {
      "word": "lay store by"
    },
    {
      "word": "put store by"
    },
    {
      "word": "put store in"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
      "word": "重視"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhòngshì",
      "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
      "word": "重视"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "believe that something is very necessary",
      "word": "pitää tärkeänä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set store by"
}