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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endeavor, attempt |
| Synonyms: | adventure, affair, business, deal, effort, engagement, enterprise, essay, experiment, game, happening, hassle, hazard, job, move, operation, outfit, play, project, proposition, pursuit, shop, striving, struggle, task, thing*, trial, try, venture, what one is into, work |
| Antonyms: | abstention |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Concept: | Undertaking. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand (business ); move; first move (beginning).
-verbs
undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into; volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage (promise); contract; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to (determination)., 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; broach, institute (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel., have in hand (business); have many irons in the fire (activity).
-adjectives
undertaking; on the anvil.
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| Main Entry: | acceptance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, taking |
| Synonyms: | accepting, acknowledgment, acquiring, admission, approval, assent, compliance, consent, cooperation, gaining, getting, go-ahead, green light, nod, obtaining, okay, permission, receipt, receiving, reception, recognition, securing, taking on, undertaking, yes |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, refusal |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, action, deed, doing, execution, exploit, feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest, stoppage, suspension |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special interest or pursuit |
| Synonyms: | act, avocation, bag*, ballgame, bit*, deed, endeavor, enterprise, entertainment, game, hobby, job, labor, occupation, pastime, project, racket, scene*, scheme, stunt, task, trip, undertaking, venture, work, zoo |
| Antonyms: | hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risky or unexpected undertaking |
| Synonyms: | chance, contingency, emprise, endangerment, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene, speculation, trip, undertaking, venture |
| Antonyms: | avoidance, inaction, inactivity, inertia, latency, passiveness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assuming possession, power |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accepting, acquisition, adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assuming, embracing, grab, seizure, shouldering, takeover, taking, taking on, taking up, undertaking, usurpation |
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