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em⋅bark

  [em-bahrk]
Use embark in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.
2. to start an enterprise, business, etc.
–verb (used with object)
3. to put or receive on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
4. to involve (someone) in an enterprise.
5. to venture or invest (something) in an enterprise.
Origin:
1540–50; < MF embarquer < Sp embarcar, equiv. to em- em- 1 + -barcar, v. deriv. of barca bark 3
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em·bark   (ěm-bärk')   
v.   em·barked, em·bark·ing, em·barks

v.   tr.
  1. To cause to board a vessel or aircraft: stopped to embark passengers.
  2. To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.
v.   intr.
  1. To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
  2. To set out on a venture; commence: embark on a world tour.

[French embarquer, from Late Old French, probably from Medieval Latin imbarcāre : Latin in-, in- + barca, boat.]
em'bar·ka'tion, em·bark'ment n.
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Embark

Em*bark"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embarking.] [F. embarquer; pref. em- (L. in) + barque bark: cf. Sp. embarcar, It. imbarcare. See Bark. a vessel.]

1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. --South.

Embark

Em*bark"\, v. i. 1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

2. To engage in any affair.

Slow to embark in such an undertaking. --Macaulay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : embark
Spanish: embarcar,
German: sich einschiffen,
Japanese: 乗船する
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embark 
1550, from M.Fr. embarquer, from barque "small ship" (see bark (n.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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