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set aside

Speech parts

1. set aside - Noun

2. set aside - Adjective

3. set aside - Verb

4. set aside - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

reserved in advance

give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

make inoperative or stop

annul (a legal decision)

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set-aside

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The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote. William Ernest Hocking

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. Virginia Woolf

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us. Steve Buyer

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill. Barack Obama

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Brandon Sanderson

Set aside emergencies and help a woman giving birth. Corsican Proverb

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