Definitions for set-up

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set-up set-up

Spelling: [set-uhp]

IPA: /ˈsɛtˌʌp/

Set-Up is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in set-up (-epstu).

Definitions for set-up

noun

1. Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
2. setting-up exercise.

Examples for set-up

This victim compensation—I could claim it, even though the deal was a set-up?

Wasted in set-up; anyone could punch cards, with a little practice.

The longer this set-up prevails, the more it suits Ed Miliband.

I don't know anything about the set-up except what you've told me.

Instead, they spin dark theories that it was all a set-up to make Pakistan look bad.

There was nothing about the panel's set-up that was fair, exactly.

Maduro, typically, claimed that this might have been a set-up by the Americans.

"You do seem to have quite a set-up here," I said, off-hand.

"I can't understand why you ever included me in this set-up to begin with," he said.

A search at Salon showed one story: a set-up piece about the “looming” trial.