noun [usuallysing.] (informal)
1 a way of organizing sth; a system:
I've only been here a couple of weeks and I don't really know the set-up. * What's the set-up in your family-who does the cooking?
2 a situation in which sb tricks you or makes it seem as if you have done sth wrong:
He didn't steal the goods. It was a set-up.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for set-up is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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