Usually means: Begin or initiate a task.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word set out:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. set out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. set out: Merriam-Webster
  3. set out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. set-out, set-out, set out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. set out: Vocabulary.com
  6. set-out: Wordnik
  7. set out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. set out: Wiktionary
  9. set out: Dictionary.com
  10. set out: Rhymezone
  11. set out: FreeDictionary.org
  12. set out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. set out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. set out: Legal dictionary
  2. set out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set out: Medical dictionary

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Set-Out, set out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (set out)

verb:  (transitive) To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing.
verb:  (intransitive) To go out, leave.
verb:  (intransitive) To start an activity with the intention of finishing it.
verb:  (UK, transitive) To position, to put in a position
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, printing) To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.

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