Undertaking

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Undertake
2. n. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.
3. n. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
4. n. Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.