"set up shop" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sets up shop",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting up shop",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set up shop",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set up shop",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> up shop",
        "head": "set up shop"
      },
      "expansion": "set up shop (third-person singular simple present sets up shop, present participle setting up shop, simple past and past participle set up shop)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He set up shop in his garage every Saturday."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically arrange a shop or workplace."
      ],
      "id": "en-set_up_shop-en-verb-mOTD26wE",
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "workplace",
          "workplace"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "word": "set out one's stall"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "word": "hang out one's shingle"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "physically arrange a shop or workplace",
          "word": "avata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "physically arrange a shop or workplace",
          "word": "pystyttää"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "close up shop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 September, Derek Rapp, \"Good Company\", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 80",
          "text": "[…] these companies could enjoy support required to set up shop for the long term."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To establish a business."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To establish a business."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to establish a business",
          "word": "perustaa"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set up shop"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets up shop",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting up shop",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set up shop",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set up shop",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> up shop",
        "head": "set up shop"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "set out one's stall"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He set up shop in his garage every Saturday."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically arrange a shop or workplace."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "workplace",
          "workplace"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "close up shop"
        }
      ],
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 September, Derek Rapp, \"Good Company\", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 80",
          "text": "[…] these companies could enjoy support required to set up shop for the long term."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To establish a business."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To establish a business."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hang out one's shingle"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physically arrange a shop or workplace",
      "word": "avata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physically arrange a shop or workplace",
      "word": "pystyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to establish a business",
      "word": "perustaa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set up shop"
}