Definition of Setup

Noun: setup 'set,Ãºp

Equipment designed to serve a specific function
- apparatus
The way something is organized or arranged
"it takes time to learn the setup around here"
An act that incriminates someone on a false charge
- frame-up

Verb: set up

Start an new organization or institution
"She set up a literacy program";
- establish, found, launch
Create by putting components or members together
"They set up a committee";
- assemble, piece, put together, tack, tack together
(construction) Construct, build
"set up a barn";
- raise, erect, rear, put up
Get ready for a particular purpose or event
"set up an experiment";
- lay out, set
Put into a proper or systematic order
"set up the books on the shelves in chronological order";
- arrange
Begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
"set up an election"
Take or catch as if in a snare or trap
"I was set up!";
- ensnare, entrap, frame, stitch up [Brit]
Produce
"The scientists set up a shock wave";
- effect, effectuate
Set up for use
"set up the washer and dryer";
- install, instal, put in
Place
- install, instal, establish
Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
"set up an election";
- rig
Erect and fasten
"set up a tent";
- pitch
Organize thoughts, ideas, or temporal events
"set up one's life";
- arrange, put, order
Equip with sails or masts
- rig, set
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
"I was setting up to leave town after I paid the hotel bill";
- fix, prepare, ready, gear up, set