HyperDic: set_aside

English > 3 senses of the expression *set aside*:
VERB	cognition	set aside, allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve	give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
	change	set aside, suspend	make inoperative or stop
	social	set aside	annul (a legal decision)

English > *set aside*: 3 senses > verb 1, cognition
Meaning	Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody
Synonyms	allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve
Broader	assign, allot, portion	Give out
See also	set	put into a certain state
Spanish	apartar, destinar, reservar
Catalan	assignar, destinar, reservar

English > *set aside*: 3 senses > verb 2, change
Meaning	make inoperative or stop.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Synonym	suspend
Broader	change, alter, modify	Cause to change
Spanish	segregar, suspender
Catalan	suspendre

English > *set aside*: 3 senses > verb 3, social
Meaning	Annul (a legal decision).
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Example	"the court set aside the conviction"
Category	law, practice of law	The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
Broader	invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify	declare invalid / invalid

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