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What does set about mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word set about? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To initiate or begin some action.
  2. To attack.
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When this deal is out of the way we will then set about floating the company on the gray market.
On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy.
As I set about planing, jointing, gluing and sanding the pieces, I also began a creative argument with the wood.
They set about to swiftly close the case and make an example of the alleged perpetrators, who were quickly railroaded to prison.
Eight fire engines raced to the scene and set about tackling the blaze which firefighters said covered almost 30 acres of the field.
I slammed the kitchen door on the pair of them and set about icing my cake.

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