Usually means: Establish or become firmly established.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. set in: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. set-in, set in: Merriam-Webster
  3. set-in, set in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. set-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. set in: Collins English Dictionary
  6. set in: Vocabulary.com
  7. set-in: Wordnik
  8. set in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. set in: Wiktionary
  10. set-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. set-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. set-in, set in: Dictionary.com
  13. set in: Rhymezone
  14. set in: FreeDictionary.org
  15. set in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. set-in, set in: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. set in: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set in: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (set in)

▸ verb:  To take root, become established.

Similar:
kick in, take hold, take root, put down roots, radicate, root, install, take, settle in, settle, more...

Opposite:
unsettled, unestablished, uncertain, fluid, flexible

Types:
entrenched, ingrained, implanted, fixed, permanent, more...

Phrases:
set in motion, set in stone, set house in order, set in sleeve, set the wheels in motion, more...

Adjectives:
set, further, advance, set up, forward, incoming, mainstream, founded, progressive, firm, accrete



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Similar:
kick in, take hold, take root, put down roots, radicate, root, install, take, settle in, settle, more...

Opposite:
unsettled, unestablished, uncertain, fluid, flexible

Types:
entrenched, ingrained, implanted, fixed, permanent, more...

Phrases:
set in motion, set in stone, set house in order, set in sleeve, set the wheels in motion, been set in concrete, being set in concrete, is set in concrete, set foot in, was set in concrete, more...

Adjectives:
set, further, advance, set up, forward, incoming, mainstream, founded, progressive, firm, accrete



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