laundered

Meaning of laundered

adjective
  1. (of clothes or linen) washed and ironed.
    laundered sheets
  2. (of money) obtained illegally and processed secretly, typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.
    the property was bought with laundered money
verb, past tense
  1. wash and iron (clothes or linen).
    he wasn't used to laundering his own bed linen
  2. conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally), typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.
    $123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts

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’.

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Hyphenation of laundered

laun-dered

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • laundered is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

laundered synonyms

Meaning clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent:

wash

Meaning make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from:

clean

Words that rhyme with laundered

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