set to work's Usage Examples:

In difficult circumstances Rubel then set to work to gain a thorough understanding of Marx"s life and work.

For the next several years, he set to work on a number of projects intended to advance the Czech cultural heritage.

It encouraged mass slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace it with new build.

Though it was a modest commercial success, Eisner was financially independent, and soon set to work on another graphic novel Life on Another Planet, and completed eighteen further graphic novels before his 2005 death; two featured the autobiographical Willie from the story Cookalein: The Dreamer (1986) and To the Heart of the Storm (1991).

Requires E, P and R bits set to work.

This new label is set to work independently from HYBE Corporation in the areas of music production.

With Caen north of the River Orne in Allied hands, mine-clearance operations were launched, bulldozers were set to work to clear the streets and a convoy of trucks carrying supplies for the civilian population was brought in.

window, and a glazier appears immediately with the shoe, and he and his ten-year-old-son, Michel, set to work fixing the pane.

However, the work resumed in November 1915 when Janáček decided that Brouček was worth finishing and promptly set to work finding the next librettist in line for the job.

Popov set to work to design a more sensitive radio wave receiver that could be used as a lightning detector, to warn of thunderstorms.

those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.

He quickly set to work to institute discipline, train the troops and reinforce the city"s defences.

Crónán, however, bade him write, and then Dimma set to work, never ceasing until he had finished the Four Gospels, the sun continuing to shine.

Synonyms:

procedure, investigation, aid, investigating, welfare work, lavation, activity, attention, busywork, housekeeping, operation, task, polishing, job, shining, heavy lifting, timework, care, tending, social service, mission, subbing, duty, make-work, loose end, wash, washing, spadework, substituting, action, nightwork, logging, unfinished business, service, undertaking, coursework, toil, missionary work, housewifery, labor, paperwork, project, housework, ironing, labour,

Antonyms:

inactivity, location, Heaven, divest, fire,