undertaking
noun[C]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈteɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈʌn.dɚˌteɪ.kɪŋ/undertakingnoun[C](JOB)
C2[C]
ajob,business, orpieceofwork:
工作；任务；企业；事业Theconstructionof thetunnelis alargeandcomplexundertaking.该隧道的修建是项复杂的大工程。
Work, working and the workplace
- act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- grind
- hoop
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- moonlight
- skivvy
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- sweat
undertakingnoun[C](PROMISE)
[C]formal
aformalpromise:
正式承诺[+ that]formalThemanagergavea written undertakingthatno one wouldlosetheirjob.经理写下了书面保证，不会让任何人丢掉工作。
Synonyms
assurance(PROMISE)
bond(PROMISE)
commitment
guarantee
oath(PROMISE)
pledge
promise(SAY CERTAINLY)
vow
word(PROMISE)
Making & breaking promises & commitments
- bond
- breach
- broken
- cross my heart (and hope to die)idiom
- deliver
- fink
- go back onsomething
- Hippocratic oath
- honour
- keep (herself) toherselfidiom
- promise
- redeem
- renege
- so help me (God)idiom
- swear
- uncommitted
- unkept
- vouch forsomething/someone
- warranty
- welch
undertakingnoun[C](IN VEHICLE)
[U]UK
theactofpassinganothervehiclethat is going in the samedirectionas you bydrivingpast it on theleftside:
Undertaking in itself isn'tillegal, but you couldfaceafixedpenaltynoticeforcarelessdriving.
Undertaking in the insidelaneshould beavoidedwhereverpossible.
- Theysuggestedthat one way torelievecongestionwould be tointroduceundertaking on allstretchesofmotorwaywith three or morelanes.
On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
- aquaplaning
- backsomeoneup
- behind the wheelidiom
- bike
- biting point
- boxed in
- branch off
- coast
- drive off
- DWI
- jam
- pullsomeoneup shortidiom
- run away withsomeone
- satnav
- self-driving
- snow chains
- stall
- steer
- steerable
- undertake
undertakingnoun[C](ORGANIZING FUNERALS)
[U]
theworkof anundertaker(= apersonwhosejobis topreparedeadbodiesthat are going to beburiedorcremated(=burned)and toorganizefunerals):
Hisbookabout hislifeas afuneraldirectoris called "The Bare Bones of Undertaking".
Undertaking was not her firstchoiceofprofession.
Funerals
- catafalque
- closed-casket
- cortege
- funeral
- funeral director
- funeral home
- funeral parlour
- funerary
- funereally
- green burial
- hearse
- lay
- lie
- morgue
- mortician
- mortuary
- obsequies
- open-casket
- send
- sendsomethingoff