[
UK
/ˌʌndətˈeɪk/
]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌteɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌteɪk/ ]
VERB
- enter into a contractual arrangement
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accept as a challenge
I'll tackle this difficult task - enter upon an activity or enterprise
- accept as a charge
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promise to do or accomplish
guarantee to free the prisoners
How To Use undertake In A Sentence
- Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
- Many of them had not undertaken even the leaving certificate or the academic entry qualifications necessary to enter university.
- Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
- If you will undertake the affair, I shall be very grateful.
- The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route. Times, Sunday Times
- The pragmatic differentiation between classificatory, potential and actual affines is undertaken in accordance with the proscriptive principles described above, and is framed within a consubstantial conception of relatedness.
- So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
- To undertake more sophisticated legal work through on - hands trainings.
- In the hope of getting a fair deal, you should press him to undertake the most careful inquiry into the facts.
- The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to.