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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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Former undertaker Robert Bush has admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

The undertaker and his two helpers carried Mrs. Milgrom down to the courtyard, where a cart was waiting.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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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