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undertaker

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un·der·tak·er  (ndr-tkr)
n.
1. (ndr-tkr) See funeral director.
2. One, especially an entrepreneur, that undertakes a task or job.
undertaker
Noun
a person whose job is to look after the bodies of people who have died and to organize funerals
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.undertakerundertaker - 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.
Translations

undertaker [ˈʌndəteɪkəʳ] n → director(a) m/f de pompas fúnebres
undertaker [ˈʌndəteɪkəʳ] n (Brit) → entrepreneur m des pompes funèbres, croque-mort m
undertaker [ˈʌndəteɪkəʳ] n → (Leichen)bestatter m
undertaker [ˈʌndəteɪkəʳ] n → impresario di pompe funebri
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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.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Then he went to an undertaker whose shop he passed every day on his way to the hospital.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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