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launder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Launder \Laun"der\ (l[add]n"d[~e]r or l[aum]n"d[~e]r), n. [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandi[`e]re, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave.]
A washerwoman. [Obs.]
(Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
Launder \Laun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laundered (l[add]n"d[~e]rd or l[aum]n"d[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Laundering.]
To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.
To lave; to wet. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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). Criminal banking sense first recorded 1961, from notion of making dirty money seem clean; brought to widespread use during U.S. Watergate scandal, 1973. Related: Laundered; laundering.
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 (for rainwater) vb. 1 To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron. 2 (context obsolete English) To lave; to wet. 3 (context money English) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
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
Launder or Launders may refer to:
- Launder (surname)
- Launders (surname)
- Laundering (disambiguation), several types of washing, literally or metaphorically
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 1978), Welsh cricketer
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.