to separate an area by putting something around it:

to help someone to become familiar with a new job or a new place where they will be living, working, or staying:

to be considered by someone:

to say that someone is similar to or has the same qualities as someone else:

to spend a lot of time or effort doing something:

to influence a person illegally, usually by offering them money or threatening them:

to supply someone for a short time with something that is lacking:

to notice something and make a remark about it:

If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that its quality is too high for that person and they will not understand its true value:

to help someone to work or operate normally through a difficult period, usually by lending them money:

to tell someone not to do something because of danger or some other reason:

to think about or discuss something carefully for a long time:

If you bounce something off someone, you tell someone about an idea or plan in order to find out what they think of it:

to prevent someone or something from doing something:

to get closer to someone or something, especially in a race or competition :

to be similar to, and make someone think of, something or someone else:

to remove someone from their job or position because they have done something wrong:

to force or persuade someone to give you something:

to give work to other people to do:

to take someone or something with you: