"resurrection man" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1781, “R. King”, in Compl. Mod. London Spy, section 106",
          "text": "Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up.",
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        "A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber."
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        "(euphemistic, historical) A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber."
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          "word": "body snatcher"
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