לדלג לתוכן הראשי

verb

undertake

CEFR B2

to commit to and begin a task or responsibility

In a sentence

Six example sentences with undertake, each labelled with its topic.

  • She decided to undertake the marathon program in January, running four mornings a week through ice and dark.

    Fitness

  • The museum agreed to undertake a full cleaning of the ceiling, a job the conservators expect will take four years.

    Art

  • Few translators will undertake a thousand page novel written in dialect, knowing the work may occupy a decade of their lives.

    Literature

  • The firm agreed to undertake the audit of all three warehouses before the end of the financial year.

    Business

  • The team will undertake a five-year survey of the reef, diving the same fifty sites every spring.

    Science

  • The new council promised to undertake a full review of bus routes within its first hundred days.

    Politics

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