(laundries)
1.
Laundry is used to refer to clothes, sheets, and towels that are about to be washed, are being washed, or have just been washed.
I’ll do your ~...
He’d put his dirty ~ in the clothes basket.
= washing
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2.
A ~ is a firm that washes and irons clothes, sheets, and towels for people.
We had to have the washing done at the ~.
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3.
A ~ or a ~ room is a room in a house, hotel, or institution where clothes, sheets, and towels are washed.
He worked in the ~ at Oxford prison.
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4.
to wash your dirty ~ in public: see dirty