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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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Former undertaker Robert Bush admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Many former customers said Bush had presented as the archetypal, caring undertaker; a point noted by Hull West and Haltemprice MP Emma Hardy.

From BBC Jul. 27, 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

Dad tells Grandma it sThursday and he has to go to the Labour Exchange for the dole and then down to the undertaker to bring the mourning carriage and the coffin.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

At Cari’s body, still draped in the sheet, waiting for the undertakers.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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