"get started" meaning in English

{
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      "form": "gets started",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting started",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got started",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got started",
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        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "gotten started",
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        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> started"
      },
      "expansion": "get started (third-person singular simple present gets started, present participle getting started, simple past got started, past participle (UK) got started or (US) gotten started)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Come on guys, settle down, it's time to get started"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to begin an activity"
      ],
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          "begin"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to begin an activity"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Get the car started and then we can set off."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to begin (an activity or event)"
      ],
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      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to begin (an activity or event)"
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, A. J. Marcus, Grizzly Discovery",
          "text": "He is also an avid photographer and falconer. Don't get him started talking about his birds because he won't stop for a while.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cause (someone) to start talking about something in length"
      ],
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          "cause"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) to cause (someone) to start talking about something in length"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 94",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
          "word": "aloittaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 94",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
          "word": "começar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 94",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
          "word": "dar cuerda"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
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  "word": "get started"
}

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    {
      "form": "gets started",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting started",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got started",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got started",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten started",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Come on guys, settle down, it's time to get started"
        }
      ],
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        "to begin an activity"
      ],
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        "(intransitive) to begin an activity"
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        {
          "text": "Get the car started and then we can set off."
        }
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        "to begin (an activity or event)"
      ],
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        "(transitive) to begin (an activity or event)"
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cause (someone) to start talking about something in length"
      ],
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          "cause",
          "cause"
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      ],
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) to cause (someone) to start talking about something in length"
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
      "word": "aloittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
      "word": "começar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cause someone to start talking in length",
      "word": "dar cuerda"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get started"
}