LAUNDER


Meaning of LAUNDER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ lɔ:ndə(r) ]

( launders, laundering, laundered)

1.

When you launder clothes, sheets, and towels, you wash and iron them. ( OLD-FASHIONED )

How many guests who expect clean towels every day in an hotel launder their own every day at home?...

VERB : V n

2.

To launder money that has been obtained illegally means to process it through a legitimate business or to send it abroad to a foreign bank, so that when it comes back nobody knows that it was illegally obtained.

The House voted today to crack down on banks that launder drug money.

VERB : V n

• laun‧der‧er

(launderers)

...a businessman and self-described money launderer.

N-COUNT

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