Usually means: Commit to perform or accomplish.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. undertake: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. undertake: Merriam-Webster
  3. undertake, undertake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. undertake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. undertake: Collins English Dictionary
  6. undertake: Vocabulary.com
  7. Undertake, undertake: Wordnik
  8. undertake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. undertake: Wiktionary
  10. undertake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. undertake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. undertake: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. undertake: Dictionary.com
  14. undertake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. undertake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Undertake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Undertake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. undertake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. undertake: Rhymezone
  20. undertake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. undertake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. undertake: FreeDictionary.org
  23. undertake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. undertake: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. undertake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undertake: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undertake: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undertake: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undertake: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
verb:  (British, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
verb:  (obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.
verb:  (obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.
verb:  (obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.
verb:  (obsolete) To have or take charge of.
noun:  (British, informal) The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

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