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set up

  1. place or erect something in position.
    "police set up a roadblock on Tenth Street"
    synonyms: erect, put up, construct, build, raise, elevate, place, put (in position)
  2. establish a business, institution, or other organization.
    "she set up the business with a $4,000 bank loan"
    synonyms: establish, start, begin, get going, initiate, institute, found, create, bring into being, inaugurate, lay the foundations of
  3. establish someone in a particular capacity, occupation, or role.
    "his father set him up in business"
    synonyms: establish, finance, fund, back, subsidize
  4. make an innocent person appear guilty of something.
    "suppose Norton had set him up for Ingram's murder?"
    synonyms: falsely incriminate, frame, fabricate evidence against, trap, entrap, fit up
  5. begin making a loud sound.
    "a colony of monkeys had set up a racket in the canopy"
  6. restore or enhance the health of someone.
    "after my operation the doctor recommended a cruise to set me up again"
    synonyms: restore to health, make better, make stronger, strengthen, build up, invigorate, energize, fortify, rehabilitate

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SET SOMETHING UP meaning: 1. to formally establish a new company, organization, system, way of working, etc.: 2. to arrange…. Learn more.
1. phrasal verb. If you set something up, you create or arrange it. The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims.
a prearranged situation or circumstance, usually created to fool or trap someone; trick; scheme.
7 days ago · phrasal verb. set up in (something); setting up in (something); sets up in (something) : to start one's own business. He set up in business ...
a situation that has been arranged for some purpose: He's in the sign business and has a nice setup with that.
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set.
noun · the way in which anything is organized or arranged · an event the result of which is prearranged · a prepared arrangement of materials, machines, etc, ...
If you describe a situation as a setup, you mean that people have planned it in order to deceive you or to make it look as if you have done something wrong.