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set on foot en · VERB

Etymology

Compare the identical French mettre sur pied, of which this may be a calque.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To originate; to put into action.
    • Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements. 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 3:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
set afoot alternative lexicographic
setting on foot Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
set on foot Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
set on foot Tense=Past lexicographic
sets on foot Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (3)

fi panna alulle (Translations) · fr mettre sur pied (Translations) · cy gosod ar droed (Translations)