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Setaside vs Setout - What's the difference?

setaside | setout |

As nouns the difference between setaside and setout

is that setaside is an amount of money or resources put aside for a specific purpose while setout is an outset.

setaside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amount of money or resources put aside for a specific purpose.
  • * 1992 , Paula Duggan, Making sense of federal dollars (page 27)
  • Setasides are stated either in dollar amounts or as a percentage of total funds; in either case, setasides are taken "off the top" of the program's funds.

    See also

    * earmark

    setout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an outset
  • (colloquial, dated) a display or spread
  • *1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 8:
  • *:‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
  • *:‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
  • *:‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
  • *:‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.
  • See also

    * set out

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