undertaker
undertaker
Definition
under·taker (un′dər tā′kər; for 2 un′dər tā′kər)
noun
- a person who undertakes something
- funeral director: a somewhat old-fashioned usage
undertaker
Synonyms
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.
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