laundered
Meaning of laundered
- (of clothes or linen) washed and ironed.
laundered sheets
- (of money) obtained illegally and processed secretly, typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.
the property was bought with laundered money
- wash and iron (clothes or linen).
he wasn't used to laundering his own bed linen
- conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally), typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.
$123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts
Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’.
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Hyphenation of laundered
laun-dered
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- laundered is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
laundered synonyms
Meaning clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent:
Meaning make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from:
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