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not true that you undertook to complete the work in six months?
undertaker
n. mortician, funeral director: The body is available for
viewing at the undertaker's tonight.
undertaking
n. 1 enterprise, affair, business, project, task, effort,
venture, work, feat: The scope of the undertaking was far
beyond her capacity. 2 doing, performing, performance,
realization, achievement: Giles's undertaking of the work makes
me feel more confident. 3 promise, pledge, commitment,
assurance, contract, agreement, vow, guarantee or guaranty,
warranty: You gave an undertaking to complete the work by
Friday.
underworld
n. 1 Usually, the underworld. organized crime, the syndicate,
the Mafia, the mob, Cosa Nostra, criminals, the criminal
element, Colloq gangland: Lorenzo was fast becoming a
well-known figure in the underworld. 2 nether regions, abode of
the dead, Hades, Hell, Avernus, Dis, Orcus, Facetious Egyptian
underground: I think I prefer contemplating the Happy Hunting
Ground of the American Indian to the underworlds of Christianity
and classical Mediterranean culture.
underwrite
v. 1 back (up), finance, support, invest in, subsidize,
subvene, sponsor, uphold, approve, insure, guarantee, US
subvene: The company has agreed to underwrite the development
of your invention. 2 subscribe to, endorse or indorse, sign,
countersign, consent to, agree to, confirm, accede to, sanction,
ratify, approve, validate, Colloq OK or okay: The government
underwrote the action one day, then denied knowledge of it the
next.
undesirable
n. 1 persona non grata, pariah, outcast, exile, reject, leper:
The police had many requests to run the undesirables out of
town.
--adj. 2 unwanted, objectionable, offensive, unacceptable,
obnoxious, unsavoury, unwelcome, disliked, distasteful,