undertaking

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 7.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

labor task project firms contractor draft carrier carrying launch works

Often followed by

to the of a in was is and that

Word family

undertake undertaken undertakes undertakings undertook