undertaker
pronunciation
How to pronounce undertaker in British English:
UK [ˈʌndəteɪkə(r)]
How to pronounce undertaker in American English:
US [ˈʌndərteɪkə(r)]
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- Noun:
- one whose business is the management of funerals
Word Origin
- undertaker (n.)
- c. 1400, "a contractor or projecter of any sort," agent noun from undertake (v.). The specialized sense (1690s) emerged from funeral-undertaker.
Example
- 1. I overtake the undertaker who takes my stake by .
- 2. The undertaker of the interest is the anthropomorphize of economic category only .
- 3. When the doctor has signed the passport for paradise , the undertaker 's company sends a coffin .
- 4. The mask looked like the face of a withered old man with stringy white hair , so that I must have looked like an undertaker .
- 5. Speakers cited an undertaker in lesotho who said he was going out of business because of poor coffin sales , as so many people with h. i. v.are staying alive .