undertaker
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌteɪkər/
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director de funeraria
- She called the undertaker to schedule a service for her late grandmother.
- a local undertaker
- the town undertaker
What does an undertaker have to do to raise concerns about people that are in his care that clearly have died from not natural causes?
- What does an undertaker have to do to raise concerns about people that are in his care that clearly have died from not natural causes?
- But obviously they, they decided that it, it had a certain ring to it and that why should you stop off at the tax man on the way to the undertaker?
Examples
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After the ceremony, the undertaker guided us to the burial site.
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Call the undertaker.
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I thought that was the undertaker walking through this.
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What does an undertaker have to do to raise concerns about people that are in his care that clearly have died from not natural causes?
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On a table, the undertaker has laid out the bodies and is preparing them.
Fiction book (1995) -
I don't think we'll be bringing them to another undertaker anyway.
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"I hear they asked Bodman, the undertaker, by mistake, and then took it back."
Fiction book (1997) -
The few survivors who were left searched for the undertaker, whose business had been booming in the past few months...
Fiction book (1994) -
Andrew Fraser, with his melancholy face and deep voice, seemed more like an undertaker than a wine merchant.
Fiction book (2000) -
"American oak," the undertaker said, tapping one of the coffins.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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7.9
A person who prepares dead bodies and arranges funerals
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3.9
A person who arranges ceremonies and prepares the body after someone dies
A person who organizes ceremonies and practical details after someone dies
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Etymology
The word undertaker comes from the verb undertake, which means 'to take on' or 'to promise to do' a job. So an undertaker is someone who 'takes on' the work of arranging and managing funerals, which is why the word now means a funeral organiser.