undertaker
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undertaker
- /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/
- /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈteɪkə(ɹ)/
noun undertakers
- A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
- A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language. In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
- A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
- One who undertakes or commits to doing something. 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: funeral director, mortician, funeral, burial, mortuary, contractor, entrepreneur, funeralist, mute, funeral celebrant, funeralgoer, cremationist, underbearer, funeral-goer, bearer, gravedigger
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noun funeral director
| Español | director de funeraria |
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| 한국어 | 장의사 jang'uisa |
| 日本語 | 葬儀屋 sōgiya |
| 中文 | 承辦殯葬者 /承办殡葬者 chéngbàn bìnzàng zhě |
| Português | agente funerário, cangalheiro |
| Français | croque-mort, directeur de funérailles, directrice de funérailles, thanatologue |
| Deutsch | Bestatter, Bestatterin, Leichenbestatter, Leichenbestatterin, Beerdigungsunternehmer, Beerdigungsunternehmerin |
| Italiano | impresario di pompe funebri |
| Ελληνικά | εργολάβος κηδειών ergolávos kideión |
| Română | antreprenor de pompe funebre, cioclu |
| Русский | дире́ктор похоро́нного бюро́ diréktor poxorónnovo bjuró, гробовщи́к grobovščík |
| العربية | حَانُوتِيّ ḥānūtiyy |
noun one who undertakes or commits to doing something
| Français | entrepreneur |
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Talk about this word "undertaker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/undertaker. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. undertaker. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/undertaker "undertaker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/undertaker.Cite this
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title = {undertaker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/undertaker},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
