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undertaker Definition

under·taker (un′dər tākər; for 2 undər tā′kər)

noun

  1. a person who undertakes something
  2. funeral director: a somewhat old-fashioned usage
undertaker Synonyms

undertaker

n.

mortician, funeral director, embalmer, cremator, body snatcher*.

undertaker Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • nominate: These powers are vested in " the nominated undertaker " and the Bill gives the Secretary of State the ability to nominate that undertaker.
  • require: Part 3 also includes powers for the Secretary of State to require sewerage undertakers to adopt private sewers.
  • contact: The First thing to do on the Death of a person is to contact an undertaker.
  • concern: Pliny, H.N. 35.6 Regulations concerning an undertakers ' service " contracted out " by the local authorities.
  • become: The following year he advertised that he had also become an undertaker.
  • give: Regulation 25(1)(b ) gives water undertakers the discretion to decide which products would not adversely affect the quality of drinking water.

Converse of subject

  • approve: Members of this scheme are deemed approved by the local water undertaker.

Adjective modifier

  • statutory: He has advised statutory undertakers on all aspects of Parliamentary matters.
  • licensed: NOTES 1 ) Portsmouth Water Limited is a licensed water undertaker regulated by Ofwat.
  • funeral: There is advice about new guidance on PPE and on the use of ladders and new resources for laundry workers and for funeral undertakers.
  • relevant: All public sewers are the responsibility of the relevant sewerage undertaker.
  • existing: Such an inset appointment may be granted to another existing water undertaker or to a new licensee.
  • public: S. 29 rep. by SRO ( NI ) 1973/341 PART IV PUBLIC UTILITY UNDERTAKINGS Duty of public utility undertakers to make reports.

Modifies a noun

  • etc.: Clause 9: Extinguishment of rights of statutory undertakers etc. 39.

Noun used with modifier

  • sewerage: Any sewer which is not vested in the sewerage undertaker is a private sewer.
  • sewage: In particular, how the sewage undertakers can play an active role in addressing drainage at a strategic level.
  • water: What is the period for which the water supply can be extended to with the written consent of the water undertaker?
  • news: He hastily flung some brushes into his tool kit, then straightened up and gazed at news undertaker wwe her with deep compassion.

Possessives

  • work: At present, the Safety Code of Practice only has statutory force in relation to undertakers ' works.

Preposition: in

  • respect: It replaced Dŵr Cymru as the statutory water undertaker in respect of Shotton.
undertaker Quotes

I met Curzon in Downing Street, and received the sort of greeting a corpse would give an undertaker.

—Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl