"set on foot" meaning in English

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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 3:",
          "text": "Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements.",
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        "To originate; to put into action."
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        "(transitive) To originate; to put into action."
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        {
          "word": "set afoot"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "word": "panna alulle"
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          "lang": "French",
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          "word": "mettre sur pied"
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  "word": "set on foot"
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      "word": "panna alulle"
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      "word": "mettre sur pied"
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