from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
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verb Present participle of launder.
noun The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun washing clothes and bed linens
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As to those speculating that some of this reflects the justice department stretching to get at a political enemy (something that I wouldn't put past this administration), money laundering is something that all brokers and bankers have been taught about ... we have refresher courses and this was one of the most basic cases that we are required to report ...
Most humans do not have to bother about how they launder clothes except for following washing instructions on the label; but for those who have even the slightest compromise in their immune system, meticulous clothes laundering is essential.
Most of us today do tend to over-launder simply because laundering is so easy; children find it much easier to deposit a barely worn garment in a laundry hamper than to hang it nicely for airing or fold it neatly for the shelf.
But the risk of disease is a growing concern among scientists who work with monkeys, especially as news reports suggest that some laboratory monkeys are being illegally poached from the wild, falsely labelled as captive-bred and sold as research animals, a practice known as monkey laundering.
A section in the paper covers "License due diligence", for example pointing out the common pitfall [of] "license laundering," where a copyrighted work is redistributed (typically by a non-rights holder) with an incorrect license (a problem that is well-known to Wikimedians, too).
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