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Word entry · 10 letters

undertaker

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"Funeral director"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted adeeknrrtuStarts with UEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. one whose business is the management of funerals

Word origin

From undertake (verb) + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
  • A company shall not be appointed to be a water undertaker unless it is a limited company or a statutory water company and shall not be appointed to be a sewerage undertaker unless it is a limited company.
  • The undertaker of the enterprise is usually known today by the French term entrepreneur because we have surrendered the English word to the undertakers of funerals.

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