Definition of undertaker
1
: one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur
2
: one whose business is to prepare the dead for burial and to arrange and manage funerals
3
: an Englishman taking over forfeited lands in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries
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The first known use of undertaker was in the 15th century
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