Undertake vs Takeover - What's the difference?
undertake | takeover |
(label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.
(label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
(label) To overtake on the wrong side.
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To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
*, Bk.VII:
*:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And he was not right fat, I undertake .
* (1665-1728)
*:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.
To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
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*:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue
(label) To assume, as a character; to take on.
:(Shakespeare)
(label) To engage with; to attack.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
(label) To have knowledge of; to hear.
:(Spenser)
(label) To have or take charge of.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Keep well those that ye undertake .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:who undertakes you to your end
(label) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
*1991 , Information Services on Latin America (Oakland, Calif.), ISLA: Volume 43, Issues 1-3 , p. 195:
As a verb undertake
is to take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).As a noun takeover is
the purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.undertake
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* Sense: To commit oneself. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * SeeDerived terms
* undertaker * undertakingtakeover
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(wikipedia takeover) (en noun)Turn it off, passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
- Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.