undertaking
pronunciation
How to pronounce undertaking in British English:
UK [ˌʌndəˈteɪkɪŋ]
How to pronounce undertaking in American English:
US [ˌʌndərˈteɪkɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- the trade of a funeral director
Word Origin
- undertaking (n.)
- "enterprise," early 15c., verbal noun from undertake (v.). An Old English word for this was underfangenes.
Example
- 1. It is sure to be a historic undertaking .
- 2. They have to be : it is a huge undertaking .
- 3. Management of the euro crisis is increasingly a grand-coalition undertaking .
- 4. But doing this for thousands of products would be a mammoth undertaking .
- 5. The iraq war and other global misadventures have revealed that being the world 's cop is a costly undertaking .