undertake /un-dər-tākˈ/

1. To pledge oneself (that)
2. To take upon oneself
3. To take upon oneself (to deal with, manage or look after)
4. To set about, engage in
5. To engage in contest with
6. To receive (obsolete)
7. To perceive (Spenser)
8. To assume (Shakespeare)
9. To be surety for (Shakespeare)

1. To promise (archaic; sometimes with for)
2. To become a surety (with for)
3. To conduct funerals (informal)

undertāˈkable adjective

unˈdertaker noun

1. Someone who manages funerals
2. Someone who takes in hand an enterprise, task or encounter
3. A projector, entrepreneur
4. A contractor
5. A publisher (obsolete)
6. A stage producer (obsolete)
7. A compiler or editor (obsolete)
8. A sponsor or surety (obsolete)
9. A tax farmer (see under tax; obsolete)
10. One of the Fife adventurers who tried to colonize the island of Lewis (c.1600)
11. One of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the Stewart kings
12. One of the English and Scottish settlers on forfeited lands in Ireland

unˈdertaking noun

1. That which is undertaken
2. Any business or project engaged in
3. A task one sets oneself
4. The business of conducting funerals

Enterprising, full of initiative

• St Cuthbert's beads
• St Cuthbert's duck
• std
• STD
• St Dabeoc's heath
• St David's Day
• Ste
• stead
• steaded
• steadfast
• steadfastly
• steadfastness
• steadfastnesses
• Steadicam
• Steadicams
• steadied
• steadier
• steadies
• steadiest
• steadily
• steadiness
• steadinesses
• steading
• steadings
• steads