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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Visitation for the father and daughter will be at noon on Wednesday, March 19 at the Ruby Chapel at Tree Of Life Funeral Directors, 1051 South Handley Drive in Fort Worth, according to the funeral director’s website.
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
Schmidt doesn't shy away from the trials and tribulations of being a funeral director.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a neighboring funeral director named West who stops in occasionally and whose financial success in his field is the subject of a lot of gossip in the restaurants.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
Schmidt doesn't shy away from the trials and tribulations of being a funeral director.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
Schmidt doesn't shy away from the trials and tribulations of being a funeral director.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a neighboring funeral director named West who stops in occasionally and whose financial success in his field is the subject of a lot of gossip in the restaurants.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
Schmidt doesn't shy away from the trials and tribulations of being a funeral director.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for funeral director
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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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