undertake
From Wiktionary
Undertake is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.
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- (transitive); (formal) If you undertake something, you take responsibility for doing it and you start to do it.
- He is in charge of this project and has undertaken this work largely single-handed since July.
- After a common two years, some students undertake industrial or professional placement in their third year.
- Britain has apparently undertaken to review its own aid to Vietnam.
Related words[change]
- undertaking (noun)
