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Put aside for future use, as in She had shelves and shelves of cans set by for some imagined food emergency . [Late 1500s] Also see set aside , def. 1; set store by .

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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