MEANING
A person whose work is arranging funerals and preparing the dead for burial or cremation.
Use it for
Practical arrangements after death, mortuary trades, professional discretion.Give death an administrative and material aftermath.
Words that belong together
- local undertaker
- undertaker's premises
- summon the undertaker
On the page
The undertaker asked which clothes the family wished to provide.
A discreet sign identified the undertaker's premises.
He recognized the undertaker from three earlier family funerals.
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Word forms
- Base
- undertaker
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Established occupational term; funeral director is often preferred today. Not necessarily an embalmer. Plural undertakers.
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