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setup

Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtʌp/

The English word “setup” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
  2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
  3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
  4. An installer.
  5. The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
  6. The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
  7. A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

Etymology

Deverbal from set up.

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