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.
