overtake
I have had a lot experience of driving in America. After my initial fear of cars undertaking on the right, it soon becomes a normal part of driving.
While it’s not strictly illegal to undertake on a motorway or dual carriageway in the UK, it can be extremely dangerous.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
aquaplaning
back someone up
biting point
boxed in
branch off
chauffeur
gun
handle
lock
platooning
pull
pull someone up
push start
range anxiety
reverse
road rage
skid
speeding
the RAC
ton

undertake | American Dictionary

undertake
verb
us/ˌʌn·dərˈteɪk/past tenseundertookus/ˌʌn·dərˈtʊk/ | past participleundertakenus/ˌʌn·dərˈteɪ·kən/
to take responsibility for and begin doing something:
[ T ]The president directed the Department of Justice to undertake an investigation of the allegations.
[ + to infinitive ]I undertook to help him learn English.

undertake | Business English

undertake
verb
uk /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/usundertook | undertaken
[ T ]
to do or begin to do something, especially something that will take a long time or be difficult:
He needs to undertake a proper cashflow and budgeting exercise.
Some companies have undertaken a thorough transformation of their production methods.
[ I ]formal
to promise or agree that you will do something:
undertake to do sthAll banks have undertaken to give printouts on request of standing orders and direct debits.

Examples of undertake

undertake
Adequately identifying and effectively measuring all relevant consumptive and non-consumptive values of varying stockholders is a non-trivial and complex matter, but it must be undertaken.
Given that such an exercise is not costless, it is only worth undertaking if the benefit from doing so outweighs the costs.
Education: specifies years of schooling the respondent has undertaken.
First, the analysis is undertaken at the firm level.
All those projects are socially desirable and yet unlikely to be spontaneously undertaken by private investors.
Nevertheless, it creates the willingness to finance operating costs of projects undertaken.
The difficulty and cost of the required actions may well prevent poorer households from undertaking them.
The task was formidable but has been undertaken successfully.
If these are unknown, then further research should be undertaken to elucidate these quantities.
All observations and experiments, except those dealing with phenological synchronization with the host, were undertaken in the laboratory.
In closing, however, let me provide a reminder of the character of the exercise we have undertaken.
Several graptolite studies have been undertaken in the area.
Initial studies on in-utero tracheal occlusion were undertaken by tracheal ligation,111 using clipping of the fetal trachea.
A similar conversion was undertaken for weights of cultivar selection criteria.
The complete solution of these fundamental equations requires a numerical investigation of considerable complexity which has not been undertaken.
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