'Undertaking' definitions:
Definition of 'undertaking'
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Definition of 'Undertaking'
From: GCIDE
- Undertaking \Un`der*tak"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A promise or pledge; a guarantee. --A. Trollope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Undertaking'
From: GCIDE
- Undertake \Un`der*take"\, v. t. [imp. Undertook; p. p. Undertaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Undertaking.] [Under + take.]
- 1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. [1913 Webster]
- To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. [1913 Webster]
- I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm. [1913 Webster]
- And he was not right fat, I undertake. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I dare undertake they will not lose their labor. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To assume, as a character. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To engage with; to attack. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To take or have the charge of. [Obs.] "Who undertakes you to your end." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Keep well those that ye undertake. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'undertaking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- activities,
- activity,
- adventure,
- affair,
- affairs,
- agreement,
- approach,
- assay,
- assurance,
- attempt,
- bag,
- bail,
- bid,
- blow,
- bond,
- business,
- commerce,
- commitment,
- concern,
- concernment,
- contract,
- coup,
- crack,
- dealings,
- deed,
- doing,
- doings,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- effort,
- employ,
- employment,
- endeavor,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- escrow,
- essay,
- experiment,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- fling,
- function,
- gage,
- gambit,
- gest,
- go,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handsel,
- hassle,
- hock,
- hostage,
- interest,
- job,
- labor,
- lick,
- lookout,
- mainprise,
- maneuver,
- matter,
- measure,
- move,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- offer,
- operation,
- overt act,
- passage,
- pawn,
- performance,
- performing,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- preengagement,
- proceeding,
- production,
- project,
- promise,
- realization,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- res gestae,
- service,
- shot,
- stab,
- step,
- striving,
- stroke,
- strong bid,
- struggle,
- stunt,
- surety,
- task,
- tentative,
- thing,
- thing done,
- token payment,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- try,
- turn,
- understanding,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- venture,
- verbal agreement,
- vow,
- warranty,
- whack,
- work,
- works