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launder
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[ˈlɔːndə], (Verb)
Definitions:
- wash and iron (clothes or linen)
(e.g: he wasn't used to laundering his own bed linen)
- conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally), typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses
(e.g: $123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts)
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Origin
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Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’
[ˈlɔːndə], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore
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Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’
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