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undertaker

[uhn-der-tay-ker, uhn-der-tay-ker] / ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər, ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər /
NOUN
funeral director
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Eleri's body was flown back to the UK and has been formally identified by an undertaker, the inquest heard.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Durham Police and Durham County Council will work with a local undertaker to perform a funeral later this month, with the child to be buried in Bishop Auckland cemetery.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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

Tessie had given Georgie Pappas, the undertaker, her husband’s wedding crown, so that it could be buried along with him.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The mother of a stillborn baby boy who was found at an undertakers almost two years after his funeral says the funeral director "will pay for what he's done".

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Every autumn, as leaves turn from green to auburn and float to the ground, we turn into a nation of outdoor undertakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

So they are airborne undertakers, in a way.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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