おく; to put, to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ; to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.); to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool; to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house; to separate spatially or temporally; to do something in advance; to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state