Verb
(intransitive, idiomatic) To begin working.
As soon as he got home, he went to his desk and set to work.
Everyday he sets to work at the new assignments.
(intransitive, idiomatic, with gerund) To begin working at.
As soon as I could, I set to work making the entries.
(transitive) To cause to begin working.
I will immediately set them to work.
I was setting the children to work cleaning their rooms.
I set the pump to work getting the water out of the basement.
Synonym: put to work
At SU, DeNoyer is set to work with last year’s ACC saves leader, Lysianne Proulx, but also a Syracuse defense that conceded 28 goals in 16 games last season. Source: Internet
The media and their bros in Silicon Valley set to work burying the facts like mobsters in the woods, but true stories cannot be given the Jimmy Hoffa treatment. Source: Internet
Equipped with too few shovels, three buckets and a machete, we set to work building Sid from the Ice Age movies. Source: Internet
Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners: A history of the popes, Yale, 2006, p219 Next Sixtus set to work to repair the finances. Source: Internet
A favourite author of mine, his books feature the lawyer Guido Guerrieri, and in this one, he is set to work as an investigator, to find out what happened to a missing girl. Source: Internet
Baader arrived with two guards, and set to work with Meinhof in the institute's library. Source: Internet