UNDERTAKE


Meaning of UNDERTAKE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌndə(r)teɪk ]

( undertakes, undertaking, undertook, undertaken)

1.

When you undertake a task or job, you start doing it and accept responsibility for it.

She undertook the arduous task of monitoring the elections.

VERB : V n

2.

If you undertake to do something, you promise that you will do it.

He undertook to edit the text himself.

VERB : V to-inf

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