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1a passage or section of a novel, play, film, or piece of music that is arranged in an elaborate or conventional pattern for maximum effect: the film lurches from one comic set piece to another
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a formal and carefully structured speech: [as modifier]: his first set-piece speech of the campaign
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2British a carefully organized and practised move in a team game by which the ball is returned to play, as at a scrum or a free kick: in the 89th minute another set piece produced the third goal [as modifier]: a hat-trick of exciting tries from set-piece moves