undertakingnoun/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkɪŋ/

• 1

  The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

• 2

  A promise or pledge; a guarantee.

  • Nobody troubles to keep his word, to carry out literally his undertakings. In my small way I try to set that right by showing them the logical development of their ways.
  • The Hong Kong SAR Government has given undertakings that such powers [powers to prevent people from leaving Hong Kong] will not be used and that the ability to remove people from flights will be applied only to stop certain asylum seekers from entering Hong Kong.
• 3

  That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.

  • He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.
• 4

  The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• undertake