Device and Undertaking

Device

Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Undertaking and device are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Undertaking" instead a noun "Device".

Undertaking noun - Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.

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Device and undertaking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Undertaking".

Nearby Words: undertake, undertaken, undertaker

certain	certain device	certain undertaking
standard	standard device	standard undertaking
small	small device	small undertaking
massive	massive device	massive undertaking
Other adjectives: large, great, huge, dangerous, evil, major, strange, giant.

Another example would be Vetinari's great Undertaking, a plan to upgrade the city's infrastructure to run off the perpetual-motion Device that the Watch confiscated from the dark dwarfs in Thud!!.

Source: Terminally Dependent Society

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