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词汇 funeral-director
释义 funeral director
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈfjuː.nər.əl daɪˌrek.tər/ us /ˈfjuː.nɚ.əl daɪˌrek.tɚ/
a person whose job it is to arrange for the bodies of dead people to be buried or burned丧葬承办者;殡仪员
Synonyms
morticianUS
undertaker
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Funerals
burial society
catafalque
closed-casket
cortege
funeral
funeral home
funeral parlour
funerary
funereally
hearse
lay
morgue
mortician
mortuary
obsequies
open-casket
send
send something off
viewing
wake
Examples from literature

Had she started life as a funeral director instead of a milliner, it is probable that she would have infused into the dreary business something of the living quality of genius. 
He was employed by a funeral director in Philadelphia to write obituary verses for memorial cards. 
It is curious that long association with the sadness of death seems to have deprived an occasional funeral director of all sense of moderation. 

Examples of funeral director


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Funeral arrangements are a matter for the client and the funeraldirector to agree upon.
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One might argue that that gives the funeraldirector an opportunity to take advantage of the consumer.
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At the moment, anyone can be a funeraldirector.
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Secondly, will it lead to a deterioration in standards if every funeraldirector operated his own crematorium?
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The level of business required to make the crematorium necessary is very different from the level of business required to support the funeraldirector.
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Will he comment on the increasing practice in some parts of the country, whereby local authorities make a monopolistic municipal deal with one funeraldirector?
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I found that the average price charged by the funeraldirector for a £19·50 coffin was £154.
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For the same reason, the funeraldirector is able, if he wishes, to influence the relative degree of elaboration of the funeral.
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Instead, they want the funeraldirector to take the arrangements off their hands.
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In the interim period the mortuary continues to provide a storage facility for bodies not requiring postmortem but awaiting collection by the family's funeraldirector.
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No problems are attached and there is more direct control even than that of a funeraldirector in a private company.
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Clearly the department cannot be in the position of underwriting whatever a funeraldirector sees fit to charge.
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But the good funeraldirector does need support.
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When it learned about the parents' distress it adopted—or it encouraged a funeraldirector to adopt—a pragmatic interpretation of the law in this regard.
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The wording suggested is "the normal course of business as a funeraldirector".
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