laundry

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1. 1

   A laundering; a washing.

   In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.

2. 2

   A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

   Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.

3. 3

   That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

   You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.

   Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.

4. 4

   argotA penalty flag.

5. 5

   A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

Formes

pluriel

laundries