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put aside

verb

  1. to move (an object, etc) to one side, esp in rejection
  2. to store up; save

    to put money aside for a rainy day

  3. to ignore or disregard

    let us put aside our differences

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

That money never came either, so the Italian government put aside €14 million to do the work themselves.

He chose a corner spare room with good ventilation, and put aside a spare set of sheets and silverware, just in case.

But for now all intra-Kurdish squabbles have been put aside to face the Islamic State, as ISIS now calls itself.

In fact, there is a sick logic to what they do, if you put aside the Frank Underwood morality.

Many of us think of them as a time to put aside work and focus on family and friends.

Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.

By-and-by all pretence of formality and order is put aside and the battle really begins.

But he did not want any money but his own spent for it, and he believed he'd speak to Ruby Ann and have it put aside for him.

I beg you to put aside all such suspicions, and to reassure the Grand Duke, who is very much annoyed, so Rubinstein tells me.

He was stooping over her in great distress to lift her up, when he felt himself vehemently put aside by a woman's hand.

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