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undertaker

[uhn-der-tey-ker, uhn-der-tey-ker]

noun

  1. funeral director.

  2. a person who undertakes something.



undertaker

/ ˈʌԻəˌٱɪə /

noun

  1. 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of undertaker1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; undertake, -er 1
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“The Mortician” is not the cable network’s first series about a family of undertakers operating a Pasadena funeral home.

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Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.

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It meant police, firefighters, paramedics and undertakers all walked around the house and some even touched Mrs Crown's body to move things around.

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Police, firefighters, paramedics and undertakers all walked around the house and some even touched Una's body to move things around.

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Later she learned he had been taken by boat and that undertakers had accompanied him.

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