English Dictionary

undertake

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌndəˈteɪk/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 イギリス英語 くだけた表現 古語 廃用

(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.). / (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

日本語の意味

引き受ける / 着手する / 取り組む

She agreed to undertake the responsibility of organizing the conference.

彼女は会議の運営という責任を引き受けることに同意した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspense, awaiting who appeared To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

He undertook to exercise more in future.

意味（3）

(Britain, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

意味（4）

(archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.

As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe and therto sobrely.

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras […] and they wold haue slayne sire Tristram and his two felawes but sire Darras wold not suffre that but kepte them in pryson […] So sire Tristram endured there grete payne for sekenesse had vndertake hym and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue

意味（6）

(obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.

Quince. […] you must needs play Pyramus. Bottom. Well, I will undertake it.

意味（7）

(obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.

It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.

意味（8）

(obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.

Ne he his mouth would open unto wight, Untill that Guyon selfe unto him spake, And called Brigadore, (so was he hight,) Whose voice so soone as he did undertake, Eftsoones he stood as still as any stake,

意味（9）

(obsolete) To have or take charge of.

To the water side I must conduct your grace; Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux, Who undertakes you to your end.

undertakes （ present singular third-person ）

undertaking （ participle present ）

undertook （ past ）

undertaken （ participle past ）