also setup
( set-ups)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A particular set-up is a particular system or way of organizing something. ( INFORMAL )
It appears to be an idyllic domestic set-up...
I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.
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2.
If you describe a situation as a set-up , you mean that people have planned it in order to deceive you or to make it look as if you have done something wrong. ( INFORMAL )
He was asked to pick somebody up and bring them to a party, not realizing it was a setup.
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3.
The set-up of computer hardware or software is the process of installing it and making it ready to use. ( COMPUTING )
The worst part of the set-up is the poor instruction manual...
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