释义 |
ˈlaundering, vbl. n. [f. launder v.] The process or action of washing, drying, and ironing linen, etc. Also fig.
1894To-Day 17 Mar. 182/2 French cambrics..are not to be starched in the laundering, but left soft. 1908K. Grahame Wind in Willows x. 221 I'm in the washing and laundering line, you must know, ma'am. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four ii. x. 221 Her life had been laundering, scrubbing, darning, cooking, sweeping, polishing, mending, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grand-children. 1970Which? Aug. 247/2 Many people were uninformed about certain aspects of laundering. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1/8 Mr. Kerr, who rose in the Legislature to answer Dr. Shulman's question last Friday about laundering of money in Ontario, began by saying, ‘The washing or laundering of funds does occur in Toronto.’ Ibid., The laundering transaction itself is not illegal. |