Laundry

Quick meaning: Laundry is a noun meaning A laundering; a washing.

Meaning

A laundering; a washing.

More Meanings

1. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
2. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
3. A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
4. (slang, American football) A penalty flag.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• laundries

Synonyms for laundry

Depending on context, synonyms include washing, lavatory, laundromat, washateria, laundrette, wash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wash, washables, laundering, laundromat, towel, scrubber.

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