different between handling vs undertaking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændl???/, /?hændl??/
• Hyphenation: hand?ling

Etymology 1

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
   • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives

     […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.

2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Derived terms

• double-handling
• request-handling

Related terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

1. action, act

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle +? -ing

Noun

handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle +? -ing

Noun

handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• valdshandling

References

• “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

handla +? -ing

Pronunciation

Noun

handling c

1. an act, a deed
2. an act, a document
3. action
4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Derived terms

• terrorhandling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?(?)?te?k??/

Noun

undertaking (plural undertakings)

1. The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals
2. A promise or pledge; a guarantee
3. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise
4. The act of one who undertakes (in either sense)

   Antonym: overtaking (transport)

Translations

Verb

undertaking

1. present participle of undertake