set up shop
Definition
› to establish a business: Several chain stores have announced that they will set up shop in the new mall.
(Definition of set up shop from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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set the stage (for something) idiom
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set up someone phrasal verb
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set up something phrasal verb PREPARE
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set up something/someone phrasal verb ESTABLISH
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set v BECOME FIXED
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