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| undertaker | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Unternehmer, der die Beerdigung Verstorbener organisiert | |
| [1] The undertaker prepared the body for the funeral. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| undertaker | |
| 1. subst. A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations |  |
| 2. subst. (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 t | |
| In 1588 Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle. | |
| 3. subst. (rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something. | |
