[, ]a way of organizing sth; a system组织；机构；体制；建制◆I'm new here and I don't understand the set-up yet.我刚来，对这里的组织情况还不了解。 [, ]the act of starting a company or making an official arrangement开办；创建；安排◆This is a problem often faced by companies during the set-up phase.这是许多公司在创建阶段经常面临的问题。◆There are set-up costs involved in opening an account.开立账户要交开户费用。 [] a business or an organization企业；机构◆He now runs his own set-up.他目前经营自己的企业。 [, ; ]the act of preparing machines and organizing a system in a factory in order to make a particular product（机器、系统的）设置，调试◆Set-up only takes a few minutes.机器调试仅需几分钟时间。◆The software helped us reduce our set-up times and so cut costs.该软件能够帮助我们减少调试的次数从而降低成本。 [] the equipment that is needed for a particular task or purpose装置；设备◆a new recording set-up新的录音设备➡set sth up at set verb