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launder

/ˈlɑːndə(ɹ)/UK/ˈlɔːndə/

launder noun: a washerwoman or washerman.

Noun

launder (plural launders)

  1. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
  2. 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 trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
    Synonyms:
    inlayer
  4. A gutter (for rainwater).

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

  1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
  2. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
    • Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  3. To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
  4. (transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.

launder meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

launder in Tamil

துணி வெளு, துணிதுவை

launder in Urdu

دھوبن, دھوبی, دھونا, استری کرنا

launder in Malayalam

to launder, wash
അലക്കുക alakkuka

launder in Kannada

ಒಗೆದು ಚಲುವೆಮಾಡು, ಒಗೆದು ಇಸ್ತ್ರಿ ಮಾಡು, ಕಪ್ಪುಹಣವನ್ನು ಬಿಳಿಮಾಡು, ಕಪ್ಪುಹಣವನ್ನು ಸಾಚಾಮಾಡು, ಮಡಿಮಾಡು, ತೊಳೆ
More languagesFewer languages
launder in Malay
mencuci, membasuh, melabur secara haram
launder in Thai
ซักอบรีด sák-òp-rîit, ฟอก fɔ̂ɔk

Examples of launder in a sentence

  • The politician was involved in a sordid money laundering scheme.
  • They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it?
  • Art critic Ben Lewis agrees: “It’s artwashing – it launders oligarchs’ reputations.

All 20 example sentences with launder

Synonyms of launder

Forms of launder

Noun
plurallaunders
alternative formlaunderer
Verb
third-person singular presentlaunders
present participlelaundering
past participlelaundered
pastlaundered

Past tense of launder: laundered

Plural of launder: launders

Origin of launder

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“to wash”).

Words formed from launder

Questions about launder

What does launder mean?
Launder means a washerwoman or washerman.
What is launder in Tamil?
Launder in Tamil is துணி வெளு, துணிதுவை. See Launder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is launder?
Launder can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce launder?
Launder is pronounced /ˈlɔːndə/ (UK).
What is the plural of launder?
The plural of launder is launders.

Words near launder in the dictionary

  1. launcht
  2. launchway
  3. launchways
  4. launcing
  5. laund
  6. launder
  7. launderability
  8. launderable
  9. laundered
  10. launderer
  11. launderers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: launder (page history and authors); launder (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); launder (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അലക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); launder (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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