Undertaking

Quick meaning: Undertaking is a noun meaning The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

Meaning

The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.

Nobody troubles to keep his word, to carry out literally his undertakings. In my small way I try to set that right by showing them the logical development of their ways.

The Hong Kong SAR Government has given undertakings that such powers [powers to prevent people from leaving Hong Kong] will not be used and that the ability to remove people from flights will be applied only to stop certain asylum seekers from entering Hong Kong.

Word Forms

• undertakings

Synonyms for undertaking

Depending on context, synonyms include enterprise, pursuit, establishment, activity, doings, endeavor.

Antonyms for undertaking

Common opposites include overtaking.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include labor, task, project, firms, contractor, draft.

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