Undertaking

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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