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- Dictionarylaunder/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"
noun
- 1. a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore.
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to move money that has been obtained illegally through banks and other businesses to make it seem to have been obtained legally: Officials were accused of laundering the stolen funds overseas before returning them to the US. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
The meaning of LAUNDER is to wash (something, such as clothing) in water. How to use launder in a sentence.
to disguise the true nature of (a transaction, operation, or the like) by routing money or goods through one or more intermediaries. to remove embarrassing or unpleasant characteristics or elements from in order to make more acceptable: He'll have to launder his image if he wants to run for office.
To launder is to wash your clothes or other things made from cloth, like sheets and towels. A college student might try to wait to launder her clothes until she goes home for Thanksgiving. When you launder, you wash a load of laundry, or dirty clothes.
To launder money that has been obtained illegally means to process it through a legitimate business or to send it abroad to a foreign bank, so that when it comes back nobody knows that it was illegally obtained.
1. To undergo washing in a specified way: This material launders well. 2. To wash or prepare laundry. n. A trough or flume used in washing ore.
launder something to move money that has been obtained illegally into foreign bank accounts or legal businesses so that it is difficult for people to know where the money came from. Most of the drugs money was laundered through Swiss bank accounts.
