funeral director

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 The outlet reported that per the hearing, Payne — who died after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina — was formally identified with help from funeral directors in Buckinghamshire. Rachel Desantis, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025 The funeral director said the thieves could have bought almost anything on his credit cards. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025 The funeral director was going to give the new customer the benefit of the doubt when everything took a dark turn. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025 Wearing a long overcoat with a gold badge clipped to his belt, one of the suspects asked to see Wilhelmina and was ushered to the back office, where he was caught on video released by the NYPD giving the funeral director a fist bump before sitting across a desk from him. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for funeral director
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undertaker
Noun
  • After his death, his unclaimed body was embalmed with arsenic and displayed by an undertaker for a fee.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 May 2025
  • Malone, a 31-year-old man, plays the aging woman Hester — along with an American pilot, a macabre undertaker, and multiple other characters — as part of a five-person ensemble.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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