as in undertaker
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation
the funeral director instructed the pallbearers on how to proceed
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Recent Examples of funeral director
Since 2016 Jones has held the position of mortician and funeral director at Lawrence A. Jones and Sons Funeral Home.
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Some of the connections are easy to spot: Marty and Felicia are chaperones at Chuck's school dance in Act III, and Carl Lumbly's Sam Yarbrough, who Marty encounters on his walk to Felicia's, is the funeral director when Chuck's grandfather (Mark Hamill) dies.
—Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Chapelle, a retired funeral director, now goes on miles-long hikes.
—Sam Gillette, People.com, 2 June 2025
With the steadfast industry on uncertain footing, funeral directors have been forced to innovate.
—Susan Shain, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Some of the connections are easy to spot: Marty and Felicia are chaperones at Chuck's school dance in Act III, and Carl Lumbly's Sam Yarbrough, who Marty encounters on his walk to Felicia's, is the funeral director when Chuck's grandfather (Mark Hamill) dies.
—Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Chapelle, a retired funeral director, now goes on miles-long hikes.
—Sam Gillette, People.com, 2 June 2025
With the steadfast industry on uncertain footing, funeral directors have been forced to innovate.
—Susan Shain, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral director
undertaker
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This discovery becomes a tear in the banal fabric of everyday life, in which Maria reluctantly assumes the triad of caretaker, undertaker and executor – faced with a series of subdued and, at times, perverse bureaucratic exchanges.—
Olivia Bennett,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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The priest spoke to him in the room, the undertaker in the corridor.—
Anne Enright,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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