Definition of undertaking

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Undertaking (n.) Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals..

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Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
Impracticable :: Impracticable (a.) Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking..
Miscarriage :: Miscarriage (n.) Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied..
Perilous :: Perilous (a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking..
Flinch :: Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat..
Entry :: Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking..
Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
Undertaking :: Undertaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Undertak.
Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
Assist :: Assist (v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor..
Auspicate :: Auspicate (v. t.) To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business..
Romantic :: Romantic (a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking..
Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business..
Success :: Success (n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort..
Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..
Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
Back :: Back (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words..
Partnership :: Partnership (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership..
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