set aside

Questions about set aside

What does set aside mean?

set aside means "give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for set aside?

Close synonyms include allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve, suspend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is set aside a common word?

set aside is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.