undertaking

IPA: ˈʌndɝteɪkɪŋ

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

Examples of "undertaking" in Sentences

Such a mammoth undertaking is unlikely to go unnoticed.
But it was a vain undertaking for us to attempt to catch him.
The coolest part of this DIY undertaking is that a portion of print book sales go to a great cause.
Part of this undertaking is banal, and biasedly so: I simply want to find some reassurance about death.
This is a noble undertaking from a historical perspective, but it isn't as if the Lunar Orbiter data is otherwise lost.
To create the meal took two years of preparation, research and taste-testing, and the undertaking is chronicled with meticulous detail in "Fannie's Last Supper."
February 14th, 2009 at 11: 14 am to get extremely metaphorical, a successful stimulus undertaking is the manufacturing of bootstraps with which to pull ourselves up.
But there is no case for the BOE to be loosening policy now, with inflation stubbornly above target and nominal growth close to 6%; Citigroup notes this means that policy makers are above the trend growth rate of 5% that the BOE targeted in undertaking round one of quantitative easing.