laundry.
A laundering; a washing.
Meaning & usage
A laundering; a washing.
In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
A penalty flag.
A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
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