Set-to-work Definition

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(intransitive, idiomatic) To begin working.
As soon as he got home, he went to his desk and set to work.
Everyday he sets to work at the new assignments.
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(intransitive, idiomatic, with gerund) To begin working at.
As soon as I could, I set to work making the entries.
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To cause to begin working.
I will immediately set them to work.
I was setting the children to work cleaning their rooms.
I set the pump to work getting the water out of the basement.
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Set-to-work Sentence Examples

  • He went to Sydney, where he set to work in the law courts.

  • He set to work at once and finished the first volume in five months.

  • I will come back to dinner, and we'll set to work.

  • When very young he showed his interest in the past history of his native land, and in 1617, at the age of twenty-three, he had set to work looking through archives, copying charters, and corresponding with the principal men of learning of his time, the brothers Dupuy, Andre Duchesne and Jean Besly, whom he visited in Poitou.

  • The police set to work to find all her accomplices, and arrested the girl Oliva and a certain Reteaux de Villette, a friend of the countess, who confessed that he had written the letters given to Rohan in the queen's name, and had imitated her signature on the conditions of the bargain.

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