undertaker

IPA: ˈʌndɝteɪkɝ

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
(historical) 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.
(historical) 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.
(rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.

Examples of "undertaker" in Sentences

Didn’t you call an undertaker to provide a coffin, Luther?
The business of an undertaker is a refinement of modern civilization.
Sorry, expecting Jindal to be an undertaker is setting the bar way too high.
Go to the scene, call Div Surgeon to certify death, afterwards call the undertaker on call and remove body.
Berlin undertaker Walter Mueller said: Bodies that went into the ground 30 years ago look like they went in last week.
Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days.
That the undertaker at the same time bears the risks attendant upon production has to be taken into account when we consider the individual undertaker, but not when we consider the institution as such, for we cannot speak of the risk of the body of undertakers as a whole, I called the undertaker, not a man, but a something, because in truth it need not be a man with flesh and blood.