setup has definitions from the field of law
1
[ noun ] equipment designed to serve a specific function

Synonyms

apparatus

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

First , let us realize that whatever good this set-up achieved in earlier times , now the corporation per_se cannot take economic leadership .

2
[ noun ] (informal) the way something is organized or arranged

Examples

"it takes time to learn the setup around here"

Used in print

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

Looking the setup over , Stevens started coolly for the rear of the place .

Related terms

manner colloquialism

3
[ noun ] (law) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

Synonyms

frame-up

Related terms

falsification ensnare

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