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launder

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" [syn: wash ] convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Launder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brian Launder (born 1939), English Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dimitri Launder , British artist Frank Launder (1906–1997), English film director, producer and writer Simon Launder (born ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "to wash linen," from noun launder "one who washes" (especially linen), mid-15c., a contraction of lavender , from Old French lavandier "washer, launderer," from Medieval Latin lavandaria "a washer," ultimately from Latin lavare "to wash" (see lave ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES money laundering ▪ The country is a major centre for money laundering. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN fraud ▪ Gould was eventually caught last year, and pleaded guilty to 51 counts of racketeering, wire fraud , and ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A washerwoman. 2 (context mining English) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore. 3 A gutter ...

Usage examples of launder.

Managed the laundering just fine, but she wore a sturdy set of blinders when it came to her sister, Brita.

At long last Ill be able to sever my connection with this dodgy family and return to a career which doesnt involve laundering money for the criminal underworld.

Kintex, under a new operating name of Globus, also participates in the laundering of drug profits from all over Europe, exchanging cash for gold and precious stones and redistributing funds to their clients via a chain of business operations in Turkey and eastern Europe.

FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests, at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linoleum, retired, and Mr Pritchard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant, fidgets in her rinsed sleep, wakes in a dream, and nudges in the ribs dead Mr Ogmore, dead Mr Pritchard, ghostly on either side.

Inside it stood a slimmer, younger Sikh in beautifully laundered salwaartrousers and long, frock-like kameez,who bowed his snug sky-blue turban in greeting.

On the other end of the deal was a Panamanian company controlled by a lawyer indicted for laundering drug money.

A lot of unsavoury characters switched to money laundering and the tax havens off the East Coast.

Many were still just as involved in gambling, massage parlors, extortion and money laundering as ever but they distanced themselves from violence.

His experience on the waterfronts had given him an expertise in smuggling, extortion and money laundering, and these were the areas in which he made his money, first in Fuzhou then in Hong Kong and expanding throughout China and the Far East.

It is about dirty multi-billion dollar money laundering which is carried out by major Swiss banking houses.

Colombia does not grow the cocoa bush but, next to Bolivia, is the main refiner of cocaine and the chief financial center of the cocaine trade which, since General Noriega was kidnaped and imprisoned by President Bush, is being challenged by Panama for first place in money laundering and capital financing of the cocaine trade.

The bank quickly expanded its activities and became the principal bank used by Lansky and his mobster associates for laundering money garnered from prostitution, drugs and other Mafia rackets.

II period, one of the most common methods used by Resorts International and other drug related companies to clean money was by courier service to a money laundering bank.

Linowitz is important to the Committee by virtue of his long standing expertise in laundering drug money through Marine Midland and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

Drugs, dirty money laundering, crime and racketeering are all covered by their infamous Act.