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undersuit | undersurface | undertakable | undertake | undertaken | undertaker | undertaking | undertapster | undertaxed | undertenancy | undertenant

undertaker

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Noun
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un=der=tak=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

undertakern. 
  •  One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.  [1913 Webster]
    "To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter."  [1913 Webster]
    "In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

undertaker, 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.

ROGET THESAURUS

undertaker

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.


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