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Undertaker definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNDERTA'KER, n.
1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another.
3. One who manages funerals.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. one that undertakes ; one that takes the risk and management of business ; entrepreneur 2. one whose business is to prepare the dead for burial and to arrange and manage funerals 3. an Englishman taking over forfeited lands in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person whose business is to make arrangements for funerals. 2 also a person who undertakes to do something. 3 hist. an influential person in 17th-century England who undertook to procure particular legislation, esp. to obtain supplies from the House of Commons if the king would grant some concession.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(undertakers) An undertaker is a person whose job is to deal with the bodies of people who have died and to arrange funerals. N-COUNT