undertaker

Definition

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

Etymology

From undertake (verb) + -er.

Example Sentences

• "In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle."
• "A company shall not be appointed to be a water undertaker unless it is a limited company or a statutory water company and shall not be appointed to be a sewerage undertaker unless it is a limited company."
• "The undertaker of the enterprise is usually known today by the French term entrepreneur because we have surrendered the English word to the undertakers of funerals."

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