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undertaker

un.der.tak.er \.*n-d*r-'ta--k*r, 2 is '*n-d*r-.\ n 1: one that undertakes : 
   one that takes the risk and management of busine ss : ENTREPRENEUR 2: one 
   whose business is to prepare the dead for burial and to arrange and  manage 
   funerals 3: an Englishman taking over forfeited lands in Ireland in the 
   16th and 17t h centuries