Usually means: Arrangement or preparation for operation.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word setup:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. setup: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. setup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. setup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. setup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. setup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Setup, setup: Wordnik
  7. setup: Wiktionary
  8. setup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. setup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. setup: Dictionary.com
  11. setup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Setup (film), Setup (storytelling), Setup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. setup: Rhymezone
  14. setup: Free Dictionary
  15. setup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. setup: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. setup: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. setup: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. setup: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SETUP: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. setup: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Setup: Backgammon
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
noun:  The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
noun:  A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
noun:  (computing) An installer.
noun:  (operations) The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
noun:  (hydrology) The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
noun:  (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
verb:  Misspelling of set up. [(transitive) To ready for use.]

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