set-up

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Alternative form of setup.

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

2. 2
   noun

   Alternative form of setup.

   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.

Etymology

Deverbal from set up.