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Launder   /lˈɔndər/   Listen
Launder

verb
(past & past part. laundered; pres. part. laundering)
1.
Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water.  Synonym: wash.
2.
Convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones.





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"Launder" Quotes from Famous Books



... a growing transshipment country for cocaine destined for the US and Europe; economic prosperity has made Chile more attractive to traffickers seeking to launder drug profits; imported precursors passed on to Bolivia; domestic cocaine consumption ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... it was a mere matter of patrolling; but it's worse and more of it to-day. A ranger must be ready and willing to build bridges, fight fire, scale logs, chop a hole through a windfall, use a pick in a ditch, build his own house, cook, launder, and do any other old trick that comes along. But you'll know more about all this at the end of ten days than I can tell ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland


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