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Word: Launder
Speech Type: Verb
Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’
ˈlɔːndə
wash and iron (clothes or linen)
Short Definition:wash clothes
Examples:- he wasn't used to laundering his own bed linen
conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally), typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses
Short Definition:conceal origins of money
Examples:- $123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts
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