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Plural of undertaker

regular plural

The plural of undertaker is undertakers.

Forms of undertaker

Singularundertaker /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/
Pluralundertakers
Countablecountable

Undertakers in a sentence

  • 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.2001, Technology, Humans, and Society: Toward a Sustainable World

Meaning of undertaker

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

Full definition of undertaker

Questions about the plural of undertaker

What is the plural of undertaker?
The plural of undertaker is undertakers.
Is undertaker countable?
Undertaker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undertaker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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