Undertake
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.
Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.
To assume, as a character.
To engage with; to attack.
To have knowledge of; to hear.
To take or have the charge of.
To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
To venture; to hazard.
To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.
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Undertake Quotations
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Gertrude Stein
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Herman Melville
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Charles de Montesquieu
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
Undertake Translations
undertake in Dutch is ondernemen
undertake in French is entreprenez, entreprenons, entreprennent
undertake in Italian is intraprendere
undertake in Latin is coepto, ineo, promitto, adeo
undertake in Portuguese is empreenda
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