Laundry

/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A laundering; a washing..

Definitions by Sense

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.
4. (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
5. A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

Example Sentences

In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.

Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.

You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.

Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.

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• laundries

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