'setup' definitions:

Definition of 'setup'

(from WordNet)

noun

Equipment designed to serve a specific function [syn: apparatus, setup]

noun

The way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here"

noun

An act that incriminates someone on a false charge [syn: frame-up, setup]

Synonyms of 'setup'

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anatomy,
approach,
architectonics,
architecture,
arrangement,
array,
assemblage,
assembly,
attack,
blueprint,
blueprinting,
breeze,
build,
building,
buildup,
calculation,
charting,
cinch,
combination,
composition,
compound,
conception,
concord,
conformation,
constitution,
construction,
contrivance,
creation,
deployment,
design,
device,
disposal,
disposition,
duck,
easy target,
easy thing,
embodiment,
enterprise,
envisagement,
fabric,
fabrication,
fashion,
fashioning,
figuring,
foresight,
forethought,
forging,
form,
format,
formation,
frame,
frame-up,
game,
getup,
graphing,
ground plan,
guidelines,
harmony,
idea,
incorporation,
intention,
junction,
layout,
lineup,
long-range plan,
make,
makeup,
making,
manufacture,
mapping,
marshaling,
master plan,
method,
methodology,
mixture,
mold,
molding,
operations research,
order,
organic structure,
organism,
organization,
packed deal,
packed jury,
pattern,
patterning,
peace,
physique,
picnic,
pie,
piece of cake,
piecing together,
pipe,
plan,
planning,
planning function,
plotting,
prearrangement,
preconcertedness,
premeditation,
preordering,
procedure,
production,
program,
program of action,
proportion,
pushover,
put-up job,
putting together,
quiet,
quietude,
rationalization,
regularity,
rigged jury,
routine,
schedule,
schema,
schematism,
schematization,
scheme,
scheme of arrangement,
scheming,
shape,
shaping,
sinecure,
sitting duck,
snap,
stacked deck,
strategic plan,
strategy,
structure,
structuring,
symmetry,
syneresis,
synthesis,
system,
systematization,
tactical plan,
tactics,
tectonics,
texture,
the big picture,
the picture,
tissue,
tranquillity,
uniformity,
velvet,
warp and woof,
way,
weave,
web,
working plan