Roget's Thesaurus

#676. Undertaking

Nouns

undertaking; compact etc. 769; adventure, venture; engagement etc. (promise) 768; enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand etc. (business ) 625; move; first move etc. (beginning) 66.

Verbs

undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into; volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage etc. (promise) 768; contract etc. 769; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to etc. (determination) 604. take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin one's etc. 66; broach one's, institute one's etc. (originate) 153; put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel. have in hand etc. (business) 625; have many irons in the fire etc. (activity) 682.

Adjectives

undertaking etc. v.; on the anvil etc. 625.

Interjections

here goes!