Definition of "undertaker" []

• See funeral director. (noun)
• One, especially an entrepreneur, that undertakes a task or job. (noun)

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• "Sorry, expecting Jindal to be an undertaker is setting the bar way too high."
• "Berlin undertaker Walter Mueller said: Bodies that went into the ground 30 years ago look like they went in last week."
• "Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days."