set to work (English, verb)
expansion: set to work (third-person singular simple present sets to work, present participle setting to work, simple past and past participle set to work)
Senses:
glosses: To begin working.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
glosses: To begin working at.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
raw_tags: with gerund
glosses: To cause to begin working.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: sets to work
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: setting to work
tags: participle
present
form: set to work
tags: participle
past
form: set to work
tags: past