引き受ける

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 引き受ける, read ひきうける, means accepting responsibility for a requested role or taking over work previously handled by another party.
• Basic usage: It can be accepting the role of event host or assuming responsibility for another company's factory operation.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Accepting a role and taking over a business
  • It covers personally accepting the role of host and an organization taking over a factory business. In both cases, responsibility is assumed afterward.