Definizione monolingua

undertake

undertake (third-person singular simple present undertakes, present participle undertaking, simple past undertook, past participle undertaken)

1. (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

   He undertook a course of medication.

2. (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

   He undertook to exercise more in future.

3. (informal) to overtake on the wrong side.

   I hate people who try and undertake on the motorway.

4. (archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

     ""I have now aspyed one knyght,"" he seyde, ""that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake.""

5. (obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX:

     So Sir Trystram endured there grete payne, for syknes had undirtake hym – and that ys the grettist payne a presoner may have [...].

Definizione dizionario undertake

	intraprendere
	To start an enterprise

	addossarsi
	To make a resolution to do something and to begin to do it.

accettare

affrontare

assumere

cominciare

garantire

impegnarsi

obbligarsi

prendere

Altri significati:

(archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.

(obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

(intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

contract (disease)

(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

(to) undertake

lie (in the direction of)

catch (e.g. a ball)

To commit oneself to an obligation

start work (on)

(informal) to overtake on the wrong side.