set-upnoun
uk/ˈset.ʌp/us/ˈset̬.ʌp/set-up noun (ARRANGE)
[ S ] the way in which things are organized or arranged:
When I started my new job, it took me a while to get used to the set-up.
"Nice little set-up you've got here," he said as we showed him around the house.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- kingdom
- lay sth out
- precedence
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- stream
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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set-up noun (TRICK)
[ C usually singular ] informal a situation in which someone is tricked into doing something or is made to seem guilty of something they did not do:
When drugs were found in her luggage, she claimed it was a set-up.
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Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- pretext
- put-up job
- scheme
- snare
- sting
- stratagem
- trap
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