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Escapade vs Undertaking - What's the difference?

escapade | undertaking |

As nouns the difference between escapade and undertaking

is that escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention while undertaking is the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

As a verb undertaking is

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escapade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
  • The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
  • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • * 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
  • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
  • * 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
  • He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.

    undertaking

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
  • A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
  • That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
  • The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (Webster 1913)