setup

Definition

  • noun: the process of making something (such as a machine or computer program) ready to be used
  • noun: carriage of the body
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: configuration, apparatus

Examples

  • We had a great 'setup'. On my days off, my wife would work from home while I took care of the kids.

  • The tent is designed for quick and easy 'setup'. [=is designed to be set up quickly and easily]

  • Those aren't my drugs. This is a 'setup'! Someone is trying to frame me!

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) for two days. It's really sort of flattering if you want to think about it that way. A setup like that costs more than we ever took. Apparently he can afford it. That crazy Harriman. (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid