undertaking
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, undertake + -ing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]undertaking (plural undertakings)
- The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
- A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
- 2023 June 22, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Hong Kong: Local laws and customs[1]:
- 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.
- That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
- 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.
- The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).
- Antonym: overtaking (transport)
Translations
[edit]The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals
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A promise or pledge; a guarantee
That which is undertaken
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The act of one who undertakes
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Verb
[edit]undertaking
- present participle and gerund of undertake
References
[edit]- “undertaking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.