undertaking

Meaning

Noun

1. The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
2. A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
3. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
4. The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).

Verb

present participle and gerund of undertake

undertake

• Verb
• Noun

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Opposite of

overtaking

Synonyms

enterprise

project

venture

business

beginning

task

accepting

work

job

engagement

attempt

plan

promise

firm

concern

assumption

effort

corporation

pledge

company

endeavour

labor

initiative

affair

function

functions

funeral parlor

game

guarantee

house

🏠

housekeeping

housework

invention

matter

municipal

obligation

occupation

operation

prise

proposition

pursuit

resolve

resumption

risk

safeguard

serve

service

subject

trade

undertaker

Translations

entreprise

impresa

Unternehmen

empresa

empreendimento

Unternehmung

tarea

incarico

tasca

projet

garantie

promesse

pompes funèbres

Vorhaben

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, undertake + -ing.