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 funeral director was going to give the new customer the benefit of the doubt when everything took a dark turn.
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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
He was ushered into a 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, 20 Mar. 2025
Funeral arrangements for the Fort Worth rapper and his daughter killed March 3 at a Forest Hill car wash is scheduled for this week, according to the funeral director’s website.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
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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
He was ushered into a 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, 20 Mar. 2025
Funeral arrangements for the Fort Worth rapper and his daughter killed March 3 at a Forest Hill car wash is scheduled for this week, according to the funeral director’s website.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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