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What does undertaker mean?

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Noun
  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.
  3. (rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.
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Michael served as an auctioneer from 1955 to 1997 and as a funeral undertaker and shopkeeper up to the time of his death.
When she died, her father arranged for the undertaker to pick up her body from the hospital on a Saturday.
When we went into the undertaker to arrange a grave, they said it had all been taken care of.
We can't do anything now, but in the morning I'll write to the doctor, her lawyer, and the undertaker.
Miller is also the local undertaker and seems to have both an intuitive and mystical sense of how critically important his work is.
The local undertaker carried the body into town for embalming, then returned it to the ranch where it was laid out in the living room.

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