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Ongoing vs Undertaking - What's the difference?

ongoing | undertaking |

As nouns the difference between ongoing and undertaking

is that ongoing is something that is going on; a happening while undertaking is the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

As an adjective ongoing

is continuing, permanent.

As a verb undertaking is

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ongoing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • continuing, permanent
  • presently or currently happening; being in progress

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is going on; a happening.
  • * 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
    • We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

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    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)