Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A task or venture undertaken.
- noun The action of beginning a task or venture.
- noun A guaranty, pledge, or promise.
- noun The profession or duties of a funeral director.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Enterprising.
- noun The act of one who undertakes or engages to do any business, office, or duty.
- noun That which is undertaken; a business, work, or project which a person engages in or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
- noun The business of an undertaker, or manager of funerals. A promise; an engagement; an obligation; a guaranty; specifically, in American law, a formal obligation entered into by or on behalf of a party to litigation, and usually with sureties, for the payment of money or performance of some act if it should be adjudged due or otherwise become required, such an obligation being usually required as a condition of taking some step in the action, as, for instance, appealing or issuing an order of arrest or attachment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.
- noun That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
- noun Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
- noun A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Specifically, the business of an
undertaker , or the management of funerals. - noun A
promise orpledge ; aguarantee . - noun That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person
engages in, or attempts toperform ; an enterprise. - noun The act of one who
undertakes , or engages in, any project or business. - verb Present participle of
undertake .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- noun the trade of a funeral director
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Examples
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Such a mammoth undertaking is unlikely to go unnoticed.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
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Such a mammoth undertaking is unlikely to go unnoticed.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
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This is a noble undertaking from a historical perspective, but it isn't as if the Lunar Orbiter data is otherwise lost.
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Update (LOIRP) 20 January 2009 - NASA Watch 2009
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Such a mammoth undertaking is unlikely to go unnoticed.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
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Part of this undertaking is banal, and biasedly so: I simply want to find some reassurance about death.
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But it was a vain undertaking for us to attempt to catch him.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010
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But there is no case for the BOE to be loosening policy now, with inflation stubbornly above target and nominal growth close to 6%; Citigroup notes this means that policy makers are above the trend growth rate of 5% that the BOE targeted in undertaking round one of quantitative easing.
U.K. Economy Needs No Help From QE Richard Barley 2010
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February 14th, 2009 at 11: 14 am to get extremely metaphorical, a successful stimulus undertaking is the manufacturing of bootstraps with which to pull ourselves up.
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To create the meal took two years of preparation, research and taste-testing, and the undertaking is chronicled with meticulous detail in "Fannie's Last Supper."
Two Years Before the Repast Victorino Matus 2010
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The coolest part of this DIY undertaking is that a portion of print book sales go to a great cause.
The Complete Guide To Google Wave Now In Print! | Lifehacker Australia 2010
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word undertaking
"Though you pay for the hands they're shaking
The speeches and the mistakes they're making
As they struggle with the undertaking of
Simple thought."
February 20, 2007