Definition of Undertake

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Undertake

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.

Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.

To assume, as a character.

To engage with; to attack.

To have knowledge of; to hear.

To take or have the charge of.

To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.

To venture; to hazard.

To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.

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Undertake Quotations

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Gertrude Stein

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Herman Melville

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

Undertake Translations

undertake in Dutch is ondernemen
undertake in French is entreprenez, entreprenons, entreprennent
undertake in Italian is intraprendere
undertake in Latin is coepto, ineo, promitto, adeo
undertake in Portuguese is empreenda

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