undertaking

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1 [countableC usually singular]RESPONSIBLE an important job, piece of work, or activity that you are responsible for 〔重要的〕任务；事业

Starting a new business can be a risky undertaking.

创办新企业有时是一件有风险的事情。

2 [countableC] formalPROMISE a promise to do something 许诺，保证

Both organizations gave an undertaking to curb violence among their members.

两个组织都作出承诺要约束其成员的暴力行为。

3. [uncountableU]BOMX the business of an undertaker 丧葬业，殡仪业

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undertaking• Khrushchev demanded an American undertaking not to attack Cuba.• Before we can release you, we need an undertaking that you will not leave town before the trial.• Covering an Olympics is an extraordinary undertaking for any television company.• Everybody needs to realise that this is a huge undertaking.• Building the dam will be a major undertaking.• In the late 1980s, the US embarked on a major undertaking: the human genome project.• Sir Gordon Willmer also proceeded by reference to the breach of undertaking.• However, will he give one undertaking?• If success follows at the polls, legislative programmes then have to be drawn up to implement the incoming Government's undertakings.• The Select Committee that examined the Bill took a very close interest in and sought several undertakings about groundwater.• Proceedings for contempt of court are the means by which obedience to orders of the court and adherence to undertakings are ensured.• Now its innocence had vanished, and it was thronged with worldly-wise urban people intent upon sophisticated urban undertakings.

gave ... undertaking• He gave an undertaking that his government would not adopt aggressive measures in future.• Parry gave an undertaking that pay television would not be introduced next season.

From Longman Business Dictionary

undertakingun·der·tak·ing /ˌʌndəˈteɪkɪŋˈʌndərteɪ-/ noun

1[countableC usually singular] an important job, piece of work, or activity that you are responsible for

Starting a new business can be a risky undertaking.

2[countableC]COMMERCE a business

The railway’s commercial undertaking was divided into its separate elements.

the parent company and its subsidiary undertakings

3[countableC] a promise to do something, especially one that has legal force

He gave an undertaking that he would repay the money in full.

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