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What does set in motion mean?

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

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To trigger movement or progress; to get going.
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This setup allows the wheel to be set in motion once the axle starts to turn.
When Douglas's character smells a rat, the convoluted thriller plot is set in motion.
Over the next few months, a sustained campaign of dirty tricks was set in motion to create precisely those circumstances.
But that court appearance set in motion a chain of events which cost him his job, his home and his wife.
And leaving the Waratahs set in motion the chain of events that took him to Ireland.
Neville's actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days.

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