Usually means: Begin performing a specific task.
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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word set to work:

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  1. set to work: Merriam-Webster
  2. set to work: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. set to work: Wiktionary

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  1. set to work: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. set to work: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (set to work)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To begin working.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, with gerund) To begin working at.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to begin working.

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