set-up

Universal Words 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.