Undertakers
[,ʌndə'teikəz]
Examples
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Wot 'ud become of the undertakers vithout it, Sammy? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But such traders and undertakers would surely be most inconvenient debtors to such a bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those traders and other undertakers, having got so much assistance from banks and bankers, wished to get still more. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Even the making of it is so, as it may be contracted for with undertakers, at so much a mile, and so much a lock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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