Word Finder - undertakers

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A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

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A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.

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A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.

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One who undertakes or commits to doing something.

Regulation 25(1)(b) gives water undertakers the discretion to decide which products would not adversely affect the quality of drinking water.

The undertaking, once approved, is regarded as a work of public utility, and the undertakers are invested with all the rights that a public department would have in the case of the carrying out of public works.

Libitina was the goddess of funerals; her officers were the Libitinarii our undertakers; her temple in which all business connected with the last rites was transacted, in which the account of deaths - ratio Libitinae - was kept, served the purpose of a register office."

Here the undertakers (libitinarii), who carried out all funeral arrangements by contract, had their offices, and everything necessary was kept for sale or hire; here all deaths were registered for statistical purposes.

Part 3 also includes powers for the Secretary of State to require sewerage undertakers to adopt private sewers.

Pliny, H.N. 35.6 Regulations concerning an undertakers ' service " contracted out " by the local authorities.

He has advised statutory undertakers on all aspects of Parliamentary matters.

There is advice about new guidance on PPE and on the use of ladders and new resources for laundry workers and for funeral undertakers.

S. 29 rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/341 PART IV public UTILITY UNDERTAKINGS Duty of public utility undertakers to make reports.

In particular, how the sewage undertakers can play an active role in addressing drainage at a strategic level.

S. 29 rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/341 PART IV PUBLIC UTILITY UNDERTAKINGS Duty of public utility undertakers to make reports.

At present, the Safety Code of Practice only has statutory force in relation to undertakers ' works.

A check with undertakers, church leaders or funeral home directors in the area may aid in locating the records.

Though now free from constitutional control it was no less subject than before to the influence of corruption, which the English government had wielded through the Irish borough owners, known as the "undertakers," or more directly through the great executive officers.

The House was enraged at the supposed project (then much misunderstood) of the " Undertakers "; objection was taken to Bacon being elected or serving as a member while holding office as attorney-general; and, though an exception was made in his favour, it was resolved that no attorneygeneral should in future be eligible for a seat in parliament.

Outside the house, beyond the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral.

The archbishop was one of the "undertakers" who controlled the Irish House of Commons, and although he did not regain the almost dictatorial power he had exercised at an earlier period, which had suggested a comparison between him and Cardinal Wolsey, he continued to enjoy a prominent share in the administration of Ireland until his death, which occurred in London on the 19th of December 1764.

The system of road-building by private enterprise, the undertakers being rewarded by tolls levied from vehicles, persons or animals using the roads, was established in England in 1663, when an act of Charles II.