embark
- to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.
- to start an enterprise, business, etc.
- to put or receive on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
- to involve (someone) in an enterprise.
- to venture or invest (something) in an enterprise.
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Contemporary Examples of embark
Now that the Confucian-inspired mourning period is over, the son is free to embark on his own programs and policies.
You may well be about to embark on four days of cosseting, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
In the words of Shondo, a professional cage fighter turned Paladin, “It was my fate to embark on this journey.”
Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore.
When I embark upon a film, I design a set of rules and create the film according to these rules.
Inside ‘Maidan’: Sergei Loznitsa on His Ukrainian Uprising Doc and Putin’s ‘Fascist’ RegimeRichard Porton
May 24, 2014
Historical Examples of embark
Somewhere about the 20th the soldiers began to embark, to the number of 1700 men.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
From thence I shall proceed to Yarmouth, and embark immediately.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
M. Gardoqui will embark the last of this or first of next month.
You are at liberty to embark in them with your men before we scuttle this ship.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
Embark, and the romance quits our vessel and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
embark
- to board (a ship or aircraft)
- (intr; usually foll by on or upon) to commence or engage (in) a new project, venture, etc