Other forms: undertakings
An undertaking is a task taken on, or a formal promise. A major undertaking, give an undertaking, an undertaking to the court.
The promise sense is legal and binding: an undertaking given to a court is enforceable exactly as an order is. The word also names the funeral trade, which is a third sense entirely.
1nounundertakingA task taken on, or a formal promise.
“Building a house by yourself is a huge undertaking that can take years.”
undertaking is a task.
Middle English
undertaken
English
undertake
English, today
undertaking
by surface analysis, undertake + -ing. undertake comes from Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under + take (after undernim).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA