mortician

noun
🔊/mɔːˈtɪʃn/
🔊/mɔːrˈtɪʃn/
(North American English)
(also formal funeral director, undertaker ())
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  1. a person whose job is to prepare the bodies of dead people to be buried or cremated, and to arrange funerals 殡葬承办人;殡仪服务员Topics Jobsc2, Life stagesc2
    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin mors, mort- ‘death’ + -ician.