un|der|tak|ing

un|der|tak|ing
un|der|tak|ing «UHN duhr TAY kihng for 1, 2, 4; UHN duhr TAY kihng for 3 », noun.
1. something undertaken; task; enterprise: »

a rash undertaking. My uncle engaged afterward in more prosperous undertakings (Charlotte Brontë). This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings (Shakespeare).

2. a promise; pledge; guarantee: »

Three hundred pounds a year…he proposed to pay her on an undertaking that she would never trouble him (Thackeray).

3. the business of preparing the dead for burial and arranging funerals.
4. the act of one who undertakes any task or responsibility.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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