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 men fled, leaving the shaken funeral director behind in the mortuary.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Rivero is a funeral director at Pacific Interment Service in Emeryville, and the futuristic machine is an aquamation system.
—Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The legislation mandates the regulation and licensing of mortuary science practitioners, funeral directors, embalmers, cremationists, and natural reductionists.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2025
Such is the dilemma faced by the Greene family’s fourth-generation funeral director, Arthur (David Alan Grier).
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Rivero is a funeral director at Pacific Interment Service in Emeryville, and the futuristic machine is an aquamation system.
—Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The legislation mandates the regulation and licensing of mortuary science practitioners, funeral directors, embalmers, cremationists, and natural reductionists.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2025
Such is the dilemma faced by the Greene family’s fourth-generation funeral director, Arthur (David Alan Grier).
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral director
undertaker
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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
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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 3 Jun. 2025.
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