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Definition of undertaker in English: undertakernoun ˈʌndəteɪkəˈəndərˌteɪkər A person whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals. Example sentencesExamples - The family have asked the funeral undertakers not to disclose any details of the arrangements leading up to the burial.
- And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
- He also operated a local undertaker's business to which he brought his own wonderful sense of dignity and perspective.
- The local undertaker carried the body into town for embalming, then returned it to the ranch where it was laid out in the living room.
- Families started hiring undertakers to prepare the deceased for burial.
- Look at it this way: when an epidemic hits, you need doctors to tend to the sick and undertakers to bury the dead.
- When she died, her father arranged for the undertaker to pick up her body from the hospital on a Saturday.
- Last December, he had the first of four cardiac arrests, which made him so ill he consulted solicitors to make a will and undertakers to plan his funeral - and even ordered his gravestone.
- They also thanked the choir, servers, undertakers, and everyone who attended the funeral.
- Michael served as an auctioneer from 1955 to 1997 and as a funeral undertaker and shopkeeper up to the time of his death.
- Straight after the funeral the undertaker gave us all the paperwork and had it in a folder for us, and said this was for our keeping, just to look at later.
- When we went into the undertaker to arrange a grave, they said it had all been taken care of.
- Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
- The family undertakers receive the remains and prepare them, lovingly beautifying them in the white-tiled basement embalming room for the reassurance of the people left behind.
- I hadn't made arrangements with an undertaker and the phone rang off the hook with calls from New York.
- When all the arrangements had been made, I told the undertaker, whom Papa called Digger, that I wanted to see my father.
- All burials and cremations are arranged by professional undertakers.
- We can't do anything now, but in the morning I'll write to the doctor, her lawyer, and the undertaker.
- There are 30 undertakers and about 8,500 funerals held a year in Dublin.
- The package includes services provided by the state mortuary, contracted undertakers, transport of the body, coffin and religious minister.
Synonyms funeral director North American mortician archaic upholder, blackmaster, cold cook, death-hunter rare thanatologist
Rhymes acre, baker, breaker, Chandrasekhar, faker, forsaker, Jamaica, Laker, maker, nacre, partaker, Quaker, raker, saker, shaker, staker, taker, waker Definition of undertaker in US English: undertakernounˈəndərˌteɪkərˈəndərˌtākər A person whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals. Example sentencesExamples - When she died, her father arranged for the undertaker to pick up her body from the hospital on a Saturday.
- Look at it this way: when an epidemic hits, you need doctors to tend to the sick and undertakers to bury the dead.
- Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
- Last December, he had the first of four cardiac arrests, which made him so ill he consulted solicitors to make a will and undertakers to plan his funeral - and even ordered his gravestone.
- The family have asked the funeral undertakers not to disclose any details of the arrangements leading up to the burial.
- They also thanked the choir, servers, undertakers, and everyone who attended the funeral.
- And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
- When all the arrangements had been made, I told the undertaker, whom Papa called Digger, that I wanted to see my father.
- The family undertakers receive the remains and prepare them, lovingly beautifying them in the white-tiled basement embalming room for the reassurance of the people left behind.
- We can't do anything now, but in the morning I'll write to the doctor, her lawyer, and the undertaker.
- He also operated a local undertaker's business to which he brought his own wonderful sense of dignity and perspective.
- When we went into the undertaker to arrange a grave, they said it had all been taken care of.
- Families started hiring undertakers to prepare the deceased for burial.
- Michael served as an auctioneer from 1955 to 1997 and as a funeral undertaker and shopkeeper up to the time of his death.
- All burials and cremations are arranged by professional undertakers.
- The local undertaker carried the body into town for embalming, then returned it to the ranch where it was laid out in the living room.
- I hadn't made arrangements with an undertaker and the phone rang off the hook with calls from New York.
- The package includes services provided by the state mortuary, contracted undertakers, transport of the body, coffin and religious minister.
- Straight after the funeral the undertaker gave us all the paperwork and had it in a folder for us, and said this was for our keeping, just to look at later.
- There are 30 undertakers and about 8,500 funerals held a year in Dublin.
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