Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - laundry
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(laundries) 1. Laundry is used to refer to clothes, sheets, and towels that are about to be washed, are being washed, or have just been washed. I’ll do your laundry... He’d put his dirty laundry in the clothes basket. = washing N-UNCOUNT 2. A laundry is a firm that washes and irons clothes, sheets, and towels for people. We had to have the washing done at the laundry. N-COUNT 3. A laundry or a laundry room is a room in a house, hotel, or institution where clothes, sheets, and towels are washed. He worked in the laundry at Oxford prison. N-COUNT: usu sing 4. to wash your dirty laundry in public: see dirty ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural laundries) Date: 14th century 1. a. a room for doing the family wash b. a commercial laundering establishment 2. clothes or linens that have been or are to be laundered ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 an establishment for washing clothes or linen. 2 clothes or linen for laundering or newly laundered. Etymology: contr. f. lavendry (f. OF lavanderie) after LAUNDER ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. прачечная laundry soap —- хозяйственное мыло laundry soda —- стиральная сода to send linen to the laundry —- отдать белье в прачечную 2. белье has the laundry come back yet? —- вернулось ли белье из стирки? 3. стирка a small laundry can take all morning —- небольшая стирка может занять целое утро 4. ам. сл. легальное предприятие, через которое проводятся незаконные доходы (от игорных домов и т. п. для сокрытия источников этих доходов) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- early 15c., from O.Fr. lavanderie, from L. lavandarium "things to be washed," from lavare "to wash," from PIE *lou-. The criminal banking sense of launder first recorded 1961, from notion of making dirty money seem clean; brought to widespread use during Watergate scandal, 1973. Laundry list in figurative sense is from 1958. Laundromat is from 1943, originally a proprietary name. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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