Undertaker Definition
 ŭndər-tākər 
  undertakers
  
    noun
  
 
    undertakers
  
A person who undertakes something.
 Webster's New World 
Webster's New World 
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
Wiktionary 
(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding loyalty to the crown, marriage, and using English as their spoken language.
In 1588 Edmund Spenser becomes an 'undertaker' in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
 Wiktionary 
Synonyms: 
  - funeral undertaker
 - mortician
 - funeral-director
 - embalmer
 - cremator
 - body-snatcher
 
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