set-up

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1. UKalternativeAlternative form of setup.

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

   1990, John Bessant, Richard Lamming, Macmillan Dictionary of Production Technology and Management, Palgrave Macmillan UK, page 153

plural set-ups

1. UKalternativeAlternative form of setup.

   Stevenage's first-half performance forced a change of formation from Newcastle at the break, as they brought on Nile Ranger for Leon Best and switched to a 4-2-3-1 set-up.

   2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC

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   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.

   1958 January 28, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13

   A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].

   2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)