be set against sth/doing sth

— Phrasal Verb with set

/set/ verb (present participle setting, past tense and past participle set)

Definition

› to not want to do or have something: He is dead set against the move.

(Definition of be set against sth/doing sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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