3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
To second or oppose, or undertake The perilous
attempt. --Milton.
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.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.
3. Hence to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.
And he was not right fat, I undertake. --Dryden.
And those two counties I will undertake Your grace
shall well and quietly enjoiy. --Shak.
I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.
--Woodward.
4. To assume, as a character. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. To engage with to attack. [Obs.]
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every
companion that you give offense to --Shak.
6. To have knowledge of to hear. [Obs.] --Spenser.
7. To take or have the charge of [Obs.] ``Who undertakes you
to your end.'' --Shak.
Keep well those that ye undertake. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Undertaking \Un`der*tak"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in any project
or business. --Hakluyt.
2. That which is undertaken; any business, work or project
which a person engages in or attempts to perform; an
enterprise.
3. Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the
management of funerals.
4. A promise or pledge; a guarantee. --A. Trollope
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
undertaking
n : any piece of work [syn: {project}, {task}, {labor}]
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