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What does put aside mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To save (money).
  2. (transitive) To ignore or intentionally disregard (something), temporarily or permanently, so that more important things can occupy one's attention.
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His explanation that it was put aside as a mere prologue to another book doesn't carry complete conviction.
Other countries, worried about trade deficits, are trying to trim them and put aside reserves.
What impels you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
Louis put aside his journal and studied his daughter over the rim of his spectacles.
But, like Logan, we need to put aside wedge politics, personal rancor and bitter partisanship to act on behalf of the nation.
As a young Scot, I would have to put aside trivial matters such as not liking the taste of alcohol, and learn to love a guid drink.

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