undertake to do something
1undertake — un‧der‧take [ˌʌndəˈteɪk ǁ ər ] verb undertook PASTTENSE [ ˈtʊk] undertaken PASTPART [ ˈteɪkən] [transitive] 1. to accept that you are responsible for a piece of work and start to do it: • His first task was to undertake a major reorganization of… …
2undertake */*/ — UK [ˌʌndə(r)ˈteɪk] / US [ˌʌndərˈteɪk] verb [transitive] Word forms undertake : present tense I/you/we/they undertake he/she/it undertakes present participle undertaking past tense undertook UK [ˌʌndə(r)ˈtʊk] / US [ˌʌndərˈtʊk] past participle… …
3undertake — un|der|take [ ,ʌndər teık ] (past tense un|der|took [ ,ʌndər tuk ] ; past participle un|der|tak|en [ ,ʌndər teıkn ] ) verb transitive ** 1. ) to agree to be responsible for a job or project and do it: The court will undertake a serious… …
4undertake — [[t]ʌ̱ndə(r)te͟ɪk[/t]] undertakes, undertaking, undertook, undertaken 1) VERB When you undertake a task or job, you start doing it and accept responsibility for it. [V n] She undertook the arduous task of monitoring the elections. 2) VERB If you… …
5undertake — 01. The Great Wall of China is the largest construction project ever [undertaken] by man. 02. The Louvre in Paris has [undertaken] to restore some old paintings that were damaged in a fire a couple of hundred years ago. 03. As a soldier in the… …
6Something the Lord Made — Infobox Film name = Something The Lord Made caption = director = Joseph Sargent writer = Peter Silverman Robert Caswell starring = Mos Def Alan Rickman Mary Stuart Masterson producer = Robert W. Cort distributor = HBO released = 30 May 2004 (USA) …
7undertake — un|der|take W3 [ˌʌndəˈteık US dər ] v past tense undertook [ ˈtuk] past participle undertaken [ ˈteıkən] [T] formal 1.) to accept that you are responsible for a piece of work, and start to do it undertake a task/a project/research/a study etc ▪… …
8undertake — To take on oneself; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; set about; attempt; as, to undertake a task or a journey; and, specifically, to take upon oneself solemnly or expressly. To lay oneself under obligation or to enter into… …
9undertake — [c]/ʌndəˈteɪk / (say unduh tayk) verb (undertook, undertaken, undertaking) –verb (t) 1. to take on oneself (some task, performance, etc.); take in hand; essay; attempt. 2. to take on oneself by formal promise or agreement; lay oneself under… …
10undertake — /ˌʌndə teɪk/ verb to agree to do something ● They are undertaki ● We asked the research unit to undertake an investigation of the market. ● They have undertaken not to sell into our territory. ● The union has undertaken not to call a strike… …
