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Webster 1913 Edition


Undertaker

Unˊder-tak′er

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Undertaker

UNDERTA'KER

,
Noun.
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.

Definition 2024


undertaker

undertaker

English

Noun

undertaker (plural undertakers)

  1. A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
  2. (historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
    In 1588 Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.

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