noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a laundry/clothes basket (= for dirty clothes )
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Will you please put your socks in the laundry basket?
dirty clothes/washing/laundry
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She circled the bedroom, picking up dirty clothes.
do the laundry ( also do the washing British English ) (= wash dirty clothes )
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Ellie was doing the washing.
laundry basket
laundry list
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a laundry list of criticisms
loads of laundry
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I’ve already done three loads of laundry this morning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clean
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Did you get your clean laundry ?
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Edna sent her love and some clean laundry .
■ NOUN
basket
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The teenager won't put her soiled clothing in the laundry basket as requested; they don't get washed.
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But her daughter lined a huge laundry basket for the infant, and wherever she went, the basket went with her.
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She wore a swirling dress with something bright wrapped round the waist, and she carried a laundry basket .
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There were flowers on the table but no pants in the laundry basket .
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Iachimo had fallen into a laundry basket .
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A young porter stood in the corridor, a large laundry basket by his side.
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Between them and Geoffrey was the little stool Geoffrey had been sitting on while his computer sat on top of an upturned laundry basket .
facility
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Bed spaces will be provided for 365 students along with creche and laundry facilities .
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Most campgrounds have laundry facilities and coin-operated showers.
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Each resort has laundry facilities and a shop.
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No cooking or laundry facilities were provided and no meals except breakfast.
list
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For all but medieval historians and historians of laundry lists , this has to be accepted as a fact of life.
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They had laundry lists of rules they found to be bothersome, irrational or duplicative.
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Offering a laundry list of accomplishments is not good enough.
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We also came up with a laundry list of key issues that had always been there but never put on the table.
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The cast, too, reads like a laundry list of Hollywood's finest.
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Sermonic and folksy in delivery, Reno did not detail a laundry list of new programs.
room
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Others perform duties in the kitchens, the infirmary or the laundry rooms .
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Her office was in her laundry room .
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She had never had an aupair girl or a laundry room herself.
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The room is accessible only from a basement laundry room.
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Mrs Morton worked in the laundry room of a local hospital and had to alternate shifts.
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A week later I was giving Janir a bath in the raised tub in the laundry room .
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The equipment manager collects their sweaty uniforms, hauls them down to the hotel laundry room and washes them.
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Instead of poring over social studies, Jake took a pair of weights off a laundry room shelf.
service
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Weekly maid and household laundry service included.
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She said she could start a golf tour laundry service .
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Some enterprising yards install big washing machines and then offer a horse laundry service , usually charging about £5 per rug.
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Social workers can help with benefits, housing, provisions of laundry services , and plastic covers for mattresses.
■ VERB
do
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He did a load of laundry , ran a mop across the kitchen floor.
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She did the laundry and hung it out to dry in the back yard; she cooked the meals.
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We did our laundry with sewer water from a ditch that came out of a public bathhouse.
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On weekends I cleaned the building, did the family laundry , cooked, and wrote my columns.
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Can cook, sew, she loves to do laundry .
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There has to be time for you to sleep, to eat, to do your laundry , and so on.
wash
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On the third day, I am strong enough to wash and do my laundry .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wash your dirty linen/laundry
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a basket of laundry