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/ˈəndərtˌeɪkər/ Listen

noun

Undertaker n.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. "To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter." "In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders."

Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

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Etymology of 'Undertaker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... little less than an Art invented. The Works of the former Artists remain indeed; but the Manner in which they were done, is entirely lost: the inventing then the Manner is really due to this latter Undertaker, since no Writings, or other Remains, are to be found by which the Method of former Artists can be discover'd, or in what Manner they executed their works; nor, in Truth, has the Italian Method since the Beginning of the 16th Century ...

— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen

... seemed to have forgotten that they had any reason to expect a letter from Frederick that morning. He was absorbed in one idea—that the last visible token of the presence of his wife was to be carried away from him, and hidden from his sight. He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. He looked wistfully at Margaret; and, when released, he tottered towards her, murmuring, 'Pray for me, Margaret. I have no strength left in me. I cannot ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... down, and a hard pavement below that window. I'd advise you, Agnew, not to pitch yourself out of that on your head. It would probably give the undertaker a job." ...

— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... 113) and measures taken to entice customers away from other competitors. Again, scientific experiments, means of communication etc., may be entirely unproductive in the individual economy of the undertaker, and yet be of more profit to mankind in general, than they have cost the former.(333) In this respect the nation's economy holds a middle place between individual economy and the world's economy.(334) Strictly speaking, only those employments should ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

... the verge of a white apoplexy, though he did not move from his seat. The cadaverous maid lifted an embroidered bodice from one of the chairs and laid it in one of the black trunks; she looked like a female undertaker laying a dead baby in its coffin. The fat maid showed all her teeth and laughed at Schreiermeyer and cleared the other chair, and brought up both ...

— Fair Margaret - A Portrait • Francis Marion Crawford

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