UNDERTAKE


Meaning of UNDERTAKE in English

(~s, undertaking, undertook, ~n)

1.

When you ~ 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 ~ 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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