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How to pronounce “setup”
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Pronunciation guide for setup
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of setup with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Jester is King
Every joke actually contains a setup and a punch line.
- Definition summary
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce setup
The Jester is King

Every joke actually contains a setup and a punch line.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “setup”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
- The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
- A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
- (computing) An installer.
- (operations) The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
- (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.
- (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.
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