Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Funeral director”10 letters
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