un·der·tak·er

(ŭn′dər-tā′kər)

2. (ŭn′dər-tā′kər) One who undertakes a task or job.

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undertaker

(ˈʌndəˌteɪkə)

(Professions) a person whose profession is the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation and the management of funerals; funeral director

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un•der•tak•er

(ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər for 1; ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər for 2 )

n.

1. funeral director.

2. a person who undertakes something.

[1350–1400]

undertaker

mortician

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

undertaker - one whose business is the management of funerals

funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician

embalmer - a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives

skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills

undertaker

noun funeral director, mortician (U.S.) I went out of the room to telephone a doctor and an undertaker.

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Translations

حانوتي يُجَهِّز المَوْتى للدَّفنحَانُوتِيّ

pracovník pohřebního ústavuzřízenec pohřebního ústavu

bedemand

Bestatter Bestattungsunternehmer Leichenbestatter

εργολάβος κηδειών

director de pompas funebres director de pompas fúnebres

hautausurakoitsija

croquemort entrepreneur entrepreneur des pompes funèbres

pogrebnik

útfararstjóri

imprenditore di pompe funebri impresario impresario di pompe funebri

葬儀屋

장의사

begrafenisondernemer

begravelsesbyrå

przedsiębiorca pogrzebowy

agente funerário

гробовщик

pracovník pohrebného ústavu

pogrebnik

begravningsentreprenör

สัปเหร่อ

cenaze kaldırıcısıcenaze levazımatçısı

người làm dịch vụ mai táng

丧事承办人殡仪业人员

undertaker

[ˈʌndəˌteɪkəʳ] N (= director) → director(a) m/f de funeraria or pompas fúnebres; (= employee) → empleado/a m/f de una funeraria
the undertaker's → la funeraria

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

undertaker

[ˈʌndə^rteɪkə^r] n → entrepreneur m des pompes funèbres, croque-mort m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

undertaker

n → (Leichen)bestatter(in) m(f); (= company) → Bestattungs- or Beerdigungsinstitut nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

undertaker

[ˈʌndəˌteɪkəʳ] n → impresario di pompe funebri

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

undertake

(andəˈteik) verb – past tense ˌunderˈtook (-ˈtuk) past participle ˌunderˈtaken –

1. to accept (a duty, task, responsibility etc). He undertook the job willingly.

2. to promise (eg to do something). He has undertaken to appear at the police court tomorrow.

ˈundertaker (-teikə) noun

a person who organizes funerals.

ˌunderˈtaking noun

1. a task or piece of work. I didn't realize what a large undertaking this job would be.

2. a promise. He made an undertaking that he would pay the money back.

undertaker

→ حَانُوتِيّ zřízenec pohřebního ústavu bedemand Leichenbestatter εργολάβος κηδειών director de pompas funebres, director de pompas fúnebres hautausurakoitsija entrepreneur des pompes funèbres pogrebnik impresario di pompe funebri 葬儀屋 장의사 begrafenisondernemer begravelsesbyrå przedsiębiorca pogrzebowy agente funerário гробовщик begravningsentreprenör สัปเหร่อ cenaze levazımatçısı người làm dịch vụ mai táng 丧事承办人

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Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proferred snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.

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AN Undertaker Who Was a Member of a Trust saw a Man Leaning on a Spade, and asked him why he was not at work.

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Sir Pitt in black, Lady Jane in black, and my Lady Southdown with a large black head-piece of bugles and feathers, which waved on her Ladyship's head like an undertaker's tray.

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Towards the middle of the day the undertaker come with his man, and they set the coffin in the middle of the room on a couple of chairs, and then set all our chairs in rows, and borrowed more from the neighbors till the hall and the parlor and the dining-room was full.

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Then he went to an undertaker whose shop he passed every day on his way to the hospital.

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The undertaker, instructed to spare no expense, provided long-tailed black horses, with black palls on their backs and black plumes upon their foreheads; coachmen decorated with scarves and jack-boots, black hammercloths, cloaks, and gloves, with many hired mourners, who, however, would have been instantly discharged had they presumed to betray emotion, or in any way overstep their function of walking beside the hearse with brass-tipped batons in their hands.

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I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.

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The face, as it showed under the glass, was not disagreeable to look upon: it bore a faint smile, and as the death had been painless, had not been distorted beyond the repairing power of the undertaker. At two o'clock of the afternoon the friends were to assemble to pay their last tribute of respect to one who had no further need of friends and respect.

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Here the counsel in his wig and gown, and here the old Jew clothes-man under his dingy tiara; here the soldier in his scarlet, and here the undertaker's mute in streaming hat-band and worn cotton gloves; here the musty scholar fumbling his faded leaves, and here the scented actor dangling his showy seals.

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But art thou not also the undertaker? Aye, sir; I patched up this thing here as a coffin for Queequeg; but they've set me now to turning it into something else.

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I have known ambition, when cured at court by frequent disappointments (which are the only physic for it), to break out again in a contest for foreman of the grand jury at an assizes; and have heard of a man who had so far conquered avarice, as to give away many a sixpence, that comforted himself, at last, on his deathbed, by making a crafty and advantageous bargain concerning his ensuing funeral, with an undertaker who had married his only child.

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Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.

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