0 a person whose job is to prepare dead bodies that are going to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals --
1 a person whose business is to prepare the dead to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals --
I have no power to require continuous 24-hour working by contractors employed by statutory undertakers or by other highway authorities on their roads.
He told us that 120 of those undertakers supply three-quarters of the population.
I do not see why an authorised undertaker should not have as much protection against undue preference as a trader has against a railway company.
In the course of his speech he pointed out that arrangements had been made for the undertakers there to give supplies at reduced rates.
Naturally a railway company will not want to negotiate with a very large number of authorised undertakers dotted up and down its system.
However, all sewerage undertakers have programmes to control and reduce the number of rats in their systems.
Such a discharge without the undertaker's agreement is a criminal offence.
The various compromises that they reached - requiring certification of deaths and paying benefits directly to undertakers, for example - were not wholly satisfying to any of the constituencies.
