Set-up

The first low kick was the set-up for this!?

What did the experimental set-up look like? What was connected to what and how?

All the stoat-related sentences I've been adding are really just a set-up for one big joke.

The main reason to vote out IMHO is not immigration or the economy, although these are important, but the dangerous lack of democracy in the EU set-up. It's designed to give the illusion of being democratic, with elections and an elected parliament, but in actual fact it's not really democratic at all.

Appointed commissioners who nobody votes for and who cannot be voted out frame all the laws, and these are then merely rubber-stamped by the European parliament. It's actually scary what this could potentially mean. It's a despot's dream set-up. Very short-sighted to vote to remain.

It was a set-up.

That was just the set-up Ziri needed to divorce Rima.

The rooks are placed in the corners during the set-up phase.

set-up time. The time taken to SET UP a machine or to change it from making one product to another.

Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.