Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
To begin to deal with, e.g., a task, a problem, etc.
Enter upon an activity or enterprise.
1 I set about the serious work of getting together a football team.
2 Isobel batted that thought away and set about solving more immediate problems.
3 They would contain answers to questions he'd set about the Middle Ages.
4 The market hailed the better-than-expected results and analysts set about upgrading them.
5 Do any of these TDs actually set about framing a proposed amendment?
6 She came back completely Americanized & set about Americanizing her Japanese family.
7 In 1802 Pierre-Simon Laplace set about to estimate the population of France.
8 Armed with this information, Eileen Goold set about addressing the gender imbalance.
9 So we set about applying everything we learned up to that point.
10 The ceremonies over, all the rites observed, I set about taking power.
11 Dowling set about transforming both properties from offices back into family homes.
12 The Catholic Church at once set about establishing missions at various pueblos.
13 And that's certainly who I was before I set about this project.
14 Ando released the young cop and straightaway set about locating Asakawa's parents.
15 And yesterday they set about working to strangle our renewed revolutionary vigour.
16 So he set about constructing a steam engine to power the drill.
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