undertakings
Tasks one commits
Undertakings are projects, tasks, or enterprises that someone commits to carrying out.
The word suggests something substantial requiring effort and responsibility: Building the canal was a massive undertaking.
An undertaking can also be a formal promise or guarantee: The company gave undertakings to improve safety standards.
The plural often emphasizes scope or ambition: His various business undertakings kept him traveling constantly.
Allocated duties or tasks
- dutiesRequired tasks or charges
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
- jobsPositions of employment
- choresRoutine household tasks
labors · functions · activities · workload · operations · errands · to-do · checklist
Self-directed action capacity
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- ventureRisky new undertaking
- enterpriseCommercial undertaking or initiative
endeavor · operation · campaign · development · planning · implementation · blueprint · construction
Commercial undertaking or initiative
- startupNew business enterprise
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- riskPossibility of harm
entrepreneurship · innovation · funding · business · exploration · expedition · gamble · opportunity
assignments
Allocated duties or tasks
- dutiesRequired tasks or charges
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
- jobsPositions of employment
chores · labors · functions · activities · workload · operations · errands · to-do · checklist · efforts
initiative
Self-directed action capacity
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- ventureRisky new undertaking
enterprise · endeavor · operation · campaign · development · planning · implementation · blueprint · construction · collaboration
enterprise
Commercial undertaking or initiative
- startupNew business enterprise
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
risk · entrepreneurship · innovation · funding · business · exploration · expedition · gamble · opportunity · partnership
pledge
Binding promise given
- promiseCommitment to act
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- vowSolemn personal commitment
oath · covenant · guarantee · bond · duty · responsibility · assurance · contract · agreement · compact
mortuary
Facility housing corpses
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- cremationBurning the deceased
interment · parlor · mortician · casket · hearse · memorial · services · arrangements · preparation · director
- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- conveyancingcompletion, title deed, searches, enquiries, land registry
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
- legal remediesinjunctions, injunction, damages, restitution, restraining order
undertakingsabstentions
Formal refusals to vote
inaction · passivity · idleness · inactivity · disengagement
undertakingsaccidents
Unintended harmful occurrences
happenstances · coincidences · random events · mishaps · unforeseen circumstances