undertakers

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plural of undertaker
undertaker
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
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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.

undertaker
{i} one who prepares the dead for burial, funeral director, one who arranges funerals; one who undertakes; entrepreneur; Englishman who took over forfeited lands in Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries
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One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor
undertaker
Commit oneself to doing or undertaking an unpleasant task
undertaker
A term sometimes applied to a person who furnishes electrical energy for lighting or other purposes
undertaker
Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals
undertaker
one whose business is the management of funerals
undertaker
one who takes up another's quarrel
undertaker
An undertaker is a person whose job is to deal with the bodies of people who have died and to arrange funerals. someone whose job is to arrange funerals American Equivalent: funeral director
undertaker
One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business
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