Usually means: Initiate or cause something to happen.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word set off:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. set off: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. set-off, set off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. set-off, set-off, set off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. set off: Vocabulary.com
  5. set-off: Wordnik
  6. set-off, set off: Wiktionary
  7. Set-off, set-off, set off: Dictionary.com
  8. Set-off, Set-off (architecture), Set-off (law), Set off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Set-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. set-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. set off: Rhymezone
  12. Set-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. set-off: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Set Off: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. set-off, set off: Free Dictionary
  16. set off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. set-off, set off: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Set-off, set off: Legal dictionary
  7. Set-off, set off: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Set-off, set off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. set off: Medical dictionary

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

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

(Note: See set_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (set off)

verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To enhance by emphasizing differences.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect.
verb:  (printing, historical) To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.

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