English Dictionary

undertaker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/

名詞

歴史的 稀用

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

日本語の意味

葬儀屋（葬儀の運営、埋葬、火葬などの業務を行う人や事業者）

The undertaker arranged the funeral with great care, comforting the family throughout.

葬儀屋は遺族を慰めながら、葬儀を細心の注意を払って手配した。

意味（1）

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

意味（2）

(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.

In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.

意味（3）

(historical) A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.

意味（4）

(rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.

The undertaker of the enterprise is usually known today by the French term entrepreneur because we have surrendered the English word to the undertakers of funerals.

undertakers （ plural ）