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launder
  1. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
  2. (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
  3. A gutter (for rainwater)
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  5. Examples:
    1. “At the time, her younger sister was a newborn, and her mother worked as a launder.”
laundry
  1. A laundering; a washing.
  2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
  3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I stopped what I was doing, which wasn't difficult because I was putting my clean laundry away, and listened.”
      “Each apartment also has a hallway, bathroom, storeroom and a separate laundry.”
      “The closet was full of clothes and shoes, and dirty laundry littered the floor.”
laundromat
  1. (US) A self-service laundry facility with coin-operated washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The next morning was spent at the laundromat drying all of our wet clothes.”
      “Every couple of blocks has its own deli, grocery, laundromat, coffee shop and so on.”
      “His girlfriend runs a laundromat with an iron fist and has no time for his artistic pretensions.”
laundering
launderer
  1. One who engages in the business of laundering.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “No experienced home launderer actually washes twelve or more loads instead of four.”
      “The 38-year-old launderer said the poet made sure that even a person who could not read and write could understand what he had written.”
      “The money launderer places dirty money into the legitimate financial system, usually by making cash deposits at a bank.”
launderability
  1. The quality or degree of being launderable.
laundryman
  1. A man who is in the business of laundering.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He mocks and tortures the Chinese laundryman, though privately his friend, along with the other boys.”
      “I had a French neighbour, a Bangladeshi plumber, a Pakistani laundryman, a Goan class teacher, and a Swiss-American benchmate in school.”
      “As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow.”
laundrymaid
  1. A maid responsible for laundry.
launderess
  1. A female launderer.
laundrymaids
  1. plural of laundrymaid
laundrymen
  1. plural of laundryman
  2. Examples:
    1. “The mobbers sought to terrorize the laundrymen inside those besieged locales.”
      “For many years before 1898, foreign residents had to have their clothes washed by native laundrymen.”
      “The men worked as market gardeners, carpenters, laundrymen, and in small business.”
launderings
laundromats
  1. plural of laundromat
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We have non-chain coffee shops and laundromats whose patrons are a fascinating mix of social strata!”
      “A particularly hated weekend chore involved the counting and rolling of all the change taken from the machines at the three laundromats he owned.”
      “These intervention programs make use of lay leadership in churches, schools, beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo and body piercing salons, and laundromats.”
launderesses
  1. plural of launderess
launderers
launders
laundries
  1. plural of laundry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Bachelor life also presented various pitfalls such as having to contend with laundries that insisted on ironing his socks.”
      “Lenin opened state-run nurseries, dining halls, laundries, and sewing centers.”
      “The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home.”
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