•a tenant holding land from a main landholder, or from a
tenant-in-chief.
undertaker
•hist an influential person in 17° c. England who undertook to procure
particular legislation, esp. to obtain supplies from the House of Commons
if the King would grant certain concessions
•nowadays a mortician or funeral director
underwriter
•a person who: signs, or accepts liability (under an insurance policy) esp.
on shipping, etc.
•a practicer of marine insurance.
•one who undertakes to finance, or agrees to buy all the stock in (a company,
etc.) not bought by the public, thus to "make a market" in a particular
security.