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   launder

   /ˈlɔːndə/

   verb

   • 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: informal "$123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts"
   • ▪ alter (information) to make it appear more acceptable: "we began to notice attempts to launder the data retrospectively"

   noun

   • 1. a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore.
   • ▪ a channel for conveying molten metal from a furnace or container to a ladle or mould.

   Word Origin 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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. launderer noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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