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noun

a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.

a person who owns or operates a funeral home.

Also called mortician, undertaker.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism

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funeral director

—n
	an undertaker

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