[ noun ] one whose business is the management of funerals <noun.person>
Undertaker \Un`der*tak"er\, n. 1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. --Beau. & Fl.
2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. --Evelyn.
In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. --South.
3. Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.
Genes play a major role in whether a honey bee serves its hive as a groomer, guard or even an undertaker, two studies suggest.
The Tax Court has turned thumbs down on a Minnesota undertaker who took a business tax deduction for $11,000 of expenses of wedding receptions for two daughters.
"I want to bury her," the 73-year-old undertaker said. "It's a free funeral.
Jessica Mitford, author of "The American Way of Death," asks: "If you lost somebody you're fond of, would you want an undertaker arranging a support group?"
The scattering was to be done by the undertaker, "privately and without publicity or the involvement of any other person."