| 单词 | launder |
| 释义 | launder (once / 1248 pages) v To launder is to wash your clothes or other things made from cloth, like sheets and towels. A college student might try to wait to launder her clothes until she goes home for Thanksgiving. When you launder, you wash a load of laundry, or dirty clothes. These days most of us use a washing machine to launder, adding detergent to the water and then tossing the wet things in the dryer after they're clean. Another meaning of launder is "hide the origins of illegal money," or "make dirty money look clean," which is usually done by making it appear that the money was earned through a legitimate business. WORD FAMILYlaunder: laundered, laundering, launders, laundry+/laundering: launderings/laundry: laundries USAGE EXAMPLES“China became quite aware that even in their ‘legal market’ there was tremendous laundering through an illegal system,” Ms. Lieberman said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Obiang is expected to plead not guilty to charges of laundering the proceeds of corruption, embezzlement and misuse of public funds. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) In play is $630 million from his estate that the United States says he and his cronies laundered through the American financial system. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water Syn|Hypo|Hyper wash rinse, wash clean with some chemical process washbe capable of being washed water-wash wash with water wash outwash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt powerwash, pressure-washwash before painting to remove old paint and mildew sudswash in suds rinse, rinse offwash off soap or remaining dirt cradlewash in a cradle stone-wash, stonewashwash with stones to achieve a worn appearance hand-wash, handwashwash or launder by hand instead of with a machine machine wash, machine-washwash by machine acid-washwash with acid so as to achieve a bleached look flush, purge, scourrinse, clean, or empty with a liquid clean, make clean make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from 2v convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones Hyper change, commute, convert, exchange exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category |
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