The undertaking entailed great expense upon the government.
Source: tatoeba (47251)
Undertaking
//ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkɪŋ//
Synonyms for "undertaking" (149 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (74)
licklookoutmainprisemaneuvermattermeasuremissionmoveobligationoccupationofferoperationovert actpassagepawnperformanceperformingpignusplanpledge
Show 47 more words
preengagementproceedingproductionprogramprojectpromisepropositionrealizationrecognizancereplevinreplevyrepresentationres gestaeresolutionserviceshotstabstepstipulationstrivingstrokestrong bidstrugglestuntsuretytasktentativethingthing donetoken paymenttour de forcetransactiontrialtrial and errortryturnunderstandingvadimoniumvadiumventureverbal agreementvowwarrantywhackwordworkworks
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
57 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιχείρημα noun (That which is undertaken)
Belarusian
3 entries- мерапрые́мства noun (That which is undertaken)
- пачына́нне noun (That which is undertaken)
- прадпрые́мства noun (That which is undertaken)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гаранция noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
- дело noun (That which is undertaken)
- погребално бюро noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
- поемане на задължение noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 事業 /事业 noun (That which is undertaken)
- 任務 /任务 noun (That which is undertaken)
- 工作 noun (That which is undertaken)
- 殯儀業 /殡仪业 noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
Danish
2 entries- firma noun (That which is undertaken)
- virksomhed noun (That which is undertaken)
Finnish
4 entries- aie noun (That which is undertaken)
- hanke noun (That which is undertaken)
- lupaus noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
- sopimus noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
French
1 entries- entreprise noun (That which is undertaken)
German
1 entries- Unternehmen noun (That which is undertaken)
Greek
1 entries- γραφείο κηδειών noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
Hungarian
1 entries- vállalkozás noun (That which is undertaken)
Irish
1 entries- gabháil noun (The act of one who undertakes)
Italian
1 entries- garanzia noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
Latin
2 entries- coeptum noun (That which is undertaken)
- susceptus noun (That which is undertaken)
Māori
1 entries- hinonga noun (That which is undertaken)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- foretak noun (That which is undertaken)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تشبث noun (That which is undertaken)
Persian
3 entries- تضمین noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
- مردهشور noun (That which is undertaken)
- گورکن noun (That which is undertaken)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Äwanämen noun (That which is undertaken)
Polish
4 entries- antrepryza noun (That which is undertaken)
- antrepryza noun (The act of one who undertakes)
- przedsięwzięcie noun (That which is undertaken)
- przedsięwzięcie noun (The act of one who undertakes)
Russian
4 entries- бюро́ ритуа́льных услу́г noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
- гара́нтия noun (A promise or pledge; a guarantee)
- зате́я noun (That which is undertaken)
- мероприя́тие noun (That which is undertaken)
Spanish
3 entries- destajo noun (That which is undertaken)
- emprendimiento noun (That which is undertaken)
- funeraria noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
Swedish
2 entries- begravningsbyrå noun (The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals)
- företag noun (That which is undertaken)
Ukrainian
3 entries- за́хід noun (That which is undertaken)
- почина́ння noun (That which is undertaken)
- підприє́мство noun (That which is undertaken)
Yiddish
2 entries- אונטערנעמונג noun (That which is undertaken)
- אונטערנעמונג noun (The act of one who undertakes)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The undertaking was a failure from the beginning.
Source: tatoeba (47253)
There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Source: tatoeba (269987)
His undertaking failed for lack of funds.
Source: tatoeba (285953)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.