necrologist
/nəˈkrɑlədʒɪst/
noun
- A person who compiles or writes about records of deaths, such as obituaries or mortality statistics.
- The historian worked as a necrologist, documenting the deaths of soldiers in the war.
- The necrologist spent hours verifying the names and dates for the annual death registry.
- As a necrologist, she wrote obituaries for the local newspaper.
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