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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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Some victims of disgraced undertaker Robert Bush have not been refunded for fake funeral plans he sold to them, a court has heard.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

She called him "the undertaker" because of his liking for dark, sombre suits.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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

It’s very different from sleeping, no matter how much the undertaker has tried to make it look like sleeping.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

A mother whose stillborn baby was discovered in a Hull undertakers almost two years after his funeral says she is trying to forgive the man responsible.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

It was brought back to Greenwood and turned over to the Century Burial Association, local Negro undertakers.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe




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