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Launder   /lˈɔndər/   Listen
noun
Launder  n.  
1.
A washerwoman. (Obs.)
2.
(Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.


verb
Launder  v. t.  (past & past part. laundered; pres. part. laundering)  
1.
To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.
2.
To lave; to wet. (Obs.)





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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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