Undertaker Definition

ŭndər-tākər
undertakers
noun
undertakers
A person who undertakes something.
Webster's New World

Funeral director.

Webster's New World

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

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(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding loyalty to the crown, marriage, and using English as their spoken language.

In 1588 Edmund Spenser becomes an 'undertaker' in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
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Singular:
undertaker
Plural:
undertakers

Undertaker Sentence Examples

  • The First thing to do on the Death of a person is to contact an undertaker.

  • A local undertaker had mummified him and placed him on display at his funeral home.

  • The undertaker matter of fact scoops a handful of earth.

  • Members of this scheme are deemed approved by the local water undertaker.

  • These powers are vested in " the nominated undertaker " and the Bill gives the Secretary of State the ability to nominate that undertaker.

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