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undertaker

[uhn-der-tey-ker, uhn-der-tey-ker] / ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər, ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər /
NOUN
funeral director
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"I think he was living beyond his means," says Patrick Moore about disgraced undertaker Robert Bush.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2026

Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

A pilgrimage to the oldest concrete road in America detours to meeting a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed Chef Boyardee.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2026

They watched silently as the undertaker inched through the field between the road and the house, his tires sinking into puddles of red mud.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 2026

Metz, chief executive of Meine Erde, has spent the past five-plus years crisscrossing Germany, trying to persuade lawmakers and medics, undertakers and religious authorities to approve human composting.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

“The Mortician” is not the cable network’s first series about a family of undertakers operating a Pasadena funeral home.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2025

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

From BBC Feb. 14, 2025

It was a list of funerals he’d gotten from the undertakers.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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