undertaker

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n. 承担者, 承办人, 企业家, 承办丧葬者, 殡仪员 [经] 承办商

发音

其它 /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/
其它 /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/

词形变化

undertakers 复数 undertakers

别名

undtkr

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    承办殡葬者

  2. 2.

    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.

    历史

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

  3. 3.

    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.

    历史
  4. 4.

    One who undertakes or commits to doing something.

    罕用

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

mortician funeral director

下位词 1

embalmer

词源

From undertake (verb) + -er.

来源：wiktionary