undertaking

sostantivo

1. 1

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

2. 2

   A promise or pledge; a guarantee.

   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.

3. 3

   That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.

   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.

4. 4

   The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).

verbo

1. 1

   Anche una forma di undertakepresent participle and gerund of undertake

Forme

plurale

undertakings