undertake

IPA: ˈʌndɝteɪk

(Britain, informal) The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

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

Examples of "undertake" in Sentences

With no goal in sight any effort we undertake is worthless.
Much of what we undertake is what we call "pre-competitive research."
Nice pictures from space -- I hope that the science they undertake is as good as their imagery -- go slow, guys.
One visit I have planned and can now undertake is to the ruins of Monte Alban - The White Mountain - in Oaxaca State still further to the South.
Because the journey I am asking readers to undertake is emotional and troubling, I knew I wanted a strong narrative pull, a mystery that would add urgency to their reading.
One project that business could undertake is the perpetual endowment of, say, 100 chairs in Canadian universities devoted to studies which promote and foster better understanding between Canadians, or between Canadians and the peoples of other countries.
They have not in any way nullified the effectiveness or the significance of the decisions taken at the London Conference, and subsequently ratified in Paris only this year, but I will say this, that the finest investment in Paris that any nation can undertake is the investment represented by tourists, the free movement of peoples from and to the shores of that nation.