set up

The way in which things are organized or the way they're arranged.

When I started my new job, it took me a while to get used to the set-up.

"Nice little set-up you've got here, " he said as we showed him round the house.

NOUNWhen somebody tricks another person you can say it was "a set up".

When drugs were found in her luggage, she claimed it was a set-up.