Undertake

un-dėr-tāk′, v.t. to take under one's management: to take upon one's self: to attempt: to answer for, warrant: to take in, understand: to a ume, to have charge of.— v.i. to take upon one's self: to be bound: to manage all the arrangements of a burial.— adj. Undertā′kable , capable of being undertaken.— ns. Undertā′ker , one who undertakes, a projector, a contractor: one who is surety or guarantee for another: one who manages funerals: formerly a contractor for the royal revenue in England , one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the 'Addled Parliament' of 1614: one of the English and Scotch settlers in Ireland on forfeited lands in the 16th century; Undertā′king , that which is undertaken: any busine or project engaged in.