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    Undertake \Un`der*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Undertook}; p. p.
    {Undertaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Undertaking}.] [Under + take.]
    1. 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.

    To second, or oppose, or undertake
    The perilous attempt. --Milton.

    2. 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.

    I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.

    3. Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.

    And he was not right fat, I undertake. --Dryden.

    And those two counties I will undertake
    Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. --Shak.

    I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.
    --Woodward.

    4. To assume, as a character. [Obs.] --Shak.

    5. To engage with; to attack. [Obs.]

    It is not fit your lordship should undertake every
    companion that you give offense to. --Shak.

    6. To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.] --Spenser.

    7. To take or have the charge of. [Obs.] ``Who undertakes you
    to your end.'' --Shak.

    Keep well those that ye undertake. --Chaucer.

    1. "We want you to communicate our concerns to the British government and we request that you advise us of the steps being undertaken by the U.S. government to adress the profound policy implications raised by this egregious deal," the letter said.
    2. In such cases, an accountant's report will add very little. Next, these reports are generally undertaken by the insolvency practitioners, who have a clear conflict of interest.
    3. Second, it avoids the "moral hazard" problem of rewarding countries that have not undertaken significant adjustment measures or that do not need debt relief.
    4. He also said the council decided to boost the reserves for future claims after its annual review, undertaken with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, showed a larger-than-expected increase in claims in recent years.
    5. U.S. officials have repeatedly said no such strike will be undertaken by the United States.
    6. Acting as consultants, these people provide information about the latest therapies, evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care being undertaken, and alleviate emotional stress.
    7. Garang is coming at the invitation of former President Jimmy Carter, who has undertaken an attempt to advance negotiations between the SPLA and the government in Khartoum, Winter said.
    8. Takeover analysts in Europe said the strong B.A.T reaction marked the first time in recent memory such a large company had undertaken a massive restructuring in response to a takeover bid.
    9. He also seems graver, which is understandable considering the uphill task he has undertaken to reconstruct the Soviet economy and to maneuver around the dazzling changes that are sweeping Eastern Europe.
    10. A source close to the company said the recapitalization was not being undertaken as a defensive move.
    11. And while the retailers have undertaken a series of cost-cutting steps, other storeowners are now being forced to make the same moves to protect themselves from the current slump in consumer spending.
    12. They also said they wanted to establish goals for democratic reforms to be implemented in Nicaragua and promised that, "with these reforms undertaken," they would lay down their arms.
    13. The move was part of a restructuring undertaken in an apparently successful effort to foil the hostile takeover efforts of New York investor Asher B. Edelman.
    14. They express their wish for early completion of the work undertaken to strengthen the efficiency of existing procedures and call for the cooperation of all states, in order to facilitate the action of the secretary general.
    15. "The repressive measures undertaken by the Romanian government are totally unjustified and stand in stark contrast to the positive changes taking place elsewhere in Eastern Europe," he said.
    16. "The investigation into what happened to the log books was undertaken at our (the presidency's) initiative.
    17. Booth, in more than five hours of testimony, said the plan was undertaken to increase worker motivation and that Polaroid had talked about an employee stock plan as long as 15 years ago.
    18. What he has not yet begun to do is to extend this modernisation process to British thinking about foreign policy, and specifically about Europe. This is a more difficult and more urgent task than anything he has so far undertaken.
    19. Covering about $90 billion in assets, the divestment plan is the biggest of dozens of similar efforts undertaken by state and local governments and other institutions.
    20. The company received three bids. Mr Moore will hold 6 per cent of the company and has undertaken not to sell his stake for a year.
    21. Through these actions, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has undertaken a course of action which in principle, differs little from what Joseph Stalin did in the Baltic States in 1940, and what Saddam Hussein is doing in Kuwait today.
    22. They are simply obligations the government has undertaken that support borrowing, which draws on capital markets just as surely as the government itself does.
    23. The addition of DRG's subsidiary - DRG Malago which has an annual turnover of Pounds 4m - bolstered Bowater's share to 51 per cent. However, Bowater has undertaken to sell its Welton business, which has a turnover of Pounds 2m, within 12 months.
    24. The ordinary put on 5 at 413 1/2 p in exceptionally heavy turnover of 72m. While the stabilisation programme being undertaken by SG Warburg, the government's adviser, will limit downward pressure, analysts are predicting a dull time for the new BT stock.
    25. The farm subsidy fight evolved as the biggest stumbling block to conclusion of the most ambitious round of trade liberalization talks ever undertaken.
    26. President Bush will travel to a Polish-American community in Michigan to announce economic aid measures aimed at demonstrating U.S. gratitude for reform steps undertaken by the communist government in Warsaw, an administration source said today.
    27. The US relief effort, the largest ever undertaken in Africa, aims to restore order to starvation-struck Somalia, which has fallen into a state of anarchy.
    28. Under a GAAP accrual accounting, you would measure all future obligations undertaken, not merely those for which bonds have been issued.
    29. As in the Gulf crisis, such operations would have to be sanctioned by the Security Council, though they would probably have to be undertaken by surrogate organisations such as Nato or the Western European Union.
    30. If common ground is not reached, there are fears that the most ambitious round of trade-liberalization talks ever undertaken could end in failure.
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