Launder

Definitions: Launder

Launder

Verb

1. Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!".

2. Convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones.

Date "launder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Metallurgy	A refractory-lined open channel along which molten steel flows from the furnace. Source: European Union. (references)
	A refractory lined channel, generally of greater depth than width, to transport molten metal by gravity or electromagnetically. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A flume, trough, channel, or chute by which water or powdered ore is conveyed in a mining operation b. An inclined channel, lined with refractory material, for the conveyance of molten steel from the furnace taphole to a ladle. Also spelled lande. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Launder

Synonym: wash (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cleanness	Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.
Stealing	Fence, launder, launder money.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Are you offering to launder my clothes for me? (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman)

Launder it. (Licence to Kill; writing credit: Michael G. Wilson; Richard Maibaum)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	How to Launder Money (reference) Launder and Gilliat (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Worker Rights	Burma	Many detailed credible reports indicate that in recent years, especially in areas inhabited chiefly by members of the Chin, Karen, Karenni, and Shan ethnic groups, army units have increased their use of forced labor for logistical support purposes, including to build, repair, or maintain army camps and roads, and to plant crops, cut or gather wood, cook, clean, launder, weave baskets, fetch water for army units and -- in the case of young women -- to provide sexual services to soldiers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Launder" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.13% of the time. "Launder" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.13%	25	69,787
Noun (singular)	12.5%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.25%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	3.13%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	32	N/A

Expression using "launder": launder money. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "launder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		laj e hekuros, lahet. (various references)

Arabic		‏كوى الملابس (iron), ‏غسل الملابس, ‏غسل (bathe, irrigate, irrigation, lave, lotion, rinse, scrub, swill, wash, washing), ‏عامل الغسيل. (various references)

Bulgarian		пера се (wash), пера (feathering, wash). (various references)

Chinese		洗涤槽. (various references)

Czech		prát (wash), žehlit (iron, press). (various references)

Danish		udløbstragt, efterfoederkanal. (various references)

Dutch		voedingskanaal, transportgoot voor vloeibaar metaal, goot (channel, drain, drainage channel, duct, Goth, grip, gutter, gutter waterway, guttering, pan, rill, runner, section, tapping spout, trench, waterway), gietloop, afsteekgoot (runner, tapping spout). (various references)

Farsi		گازری کردن , اتوکشیدن , شسته شدن (Tub), شستن (Leach, Scour, Wash), شستشو (Ablution, Bath, Bathe, Lavation, Lotion, Rinse, Souse, Wash, Washout). (various references)

Finnish		laskukouru (chute). (various references)

French		laver (lave), goulotte de coulée, goulotte, faire la lessive, couloir (lane), chenal de coulée (lander), chenal d'alimentation, blanchir. (various references)

German		waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, lave, pan, scrubbing, shampoo, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, wash, washing). (various references)

Greek		κανάλι τροφοδοσίας, πλύνω και σιδηρώνω, πλένω και σιδερώνω, αυλάκι εκκένωσης (runner, tapping spout), οχετός χύτευσης, δίαυλος τροφοδοσίας, δίοδος τροφοδοσίας. (various references)

Hebrew		לכבוס (wash), לכבס (wash). (various references)

Hungarian		szennyvízlevezető, folyadékvezeték, ércmosó vályú. (various references)

Indonesian		mencuci (lave, wash). (various references)

Italian		lavare e stirare, fare il bucato, canale di spillatura (runner, tapping spout), canale di colata (runner, spout, tapping spout), canale d'alimentazione del metallo alle macchine. (various references)

Manx		niee (bathe, flush, pan, wash). (various references)

Pig Latin		aunderlay

Portuguese		lavar e passar roupa, plataforma de lançamento (launch pad, launch stand, launch table, launcher, launching pad, launching ramp), canal de alimentação de minérios, canal de alimentação (feeder, runner). (various references)

Romanian		spãla (bathe, clean, fade, flush, irrigate, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash, wash up). (various references)

Russian		стираться (evanesce, wear away, wear down, wear off), стирать и гладить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prati se, oprati (brush, lave, shampoo, wash, wash up). (various references)

Spanish		lavar (Buddle, dip, do, douse, lave, put on a wash, rinse, shampoo, sluice, swill, tint, wash, wash down, wash out, wash up). (various references)

Swedish		tvätta och stryka. (various references)

Thai		ฟอกเงิน, ซักรี�". (various references)

Turkish		yıkanabilir olmak, yıkamak (bath, bathe, clean down, lave, lustrate, scrub, sluice, splash, wash), aklamak (absolve, acquit, blanch, brighten, clear, exculpate, exonerate, justify, purge, whiten, whitewash), çamaşır yıkamak (do the laundry, wash the clothes). (various references)

Ukranian		пратися (wash), прати (wash). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "launder": laundered, launderer, launderers, launderette, launderettes, laundering, launders. (additional references)
	Words containing "launder": unlaundered. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Launder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aluntur, Landeur, Lauenberg, laundary, Launde, Launey, launger, lawnder, Leondre, Llandre, plaindre, slaunder. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "launder" (pronounced lô"nder)
3	-n d er	Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, Ender, engender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gender, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, lavender, lender, mainlander, meander, minder, offender, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lurdane.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: aulder, darnel, lander, lauder, lurdan, neural, nurled, rundle, unlade, unlead, unread, unreal.
	-2 letters: alder, denar, dural, eland, laden, lader, learn, lunar, lured, naled, nuder, redan, renal, ruled, ulnad, ulnae, ulnar, under, unled, ureal.
	-3 letters: auld, dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, dual, duel, dune, dura, dure, durn, earl, earn, elan, lade, land, lane, lard, laud, lead, lean, lear, lend, leud, lude, luna, lune, lure, nard, near, nerd, nude, nurd, nurl, rale, rand, read, real, rend, rude, rued, rule, rune, ulan, ulna, unde, urea.
	-4 letters: ale, and, ane, are, dal, del, den, due, dun, ear, eau, eld, end, era, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, leu, nae, rad, ran, red, rue, run, urd, urn.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, an, ar, de, ed, el, en, er, la, na, ne, nu, re, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: dentural, launders, lurdanes, pendular, underlap, underlay, unloader, uplander.
	+2 letters: auslander, endurable, endurably, gardenful, laundered, launderer, laundress, laundries, outlander, roundelay, unaltered, underlaid, underlain, underlaps, underlays, underplay, unlearned, unloaders, unraveled, unrelated, unrelaxed, unridable, unrivaled, unsnarled, uplanders, uredinial.
	+3 letters: adulterant, adulterine, auslanders, bladdernut, carbuncled, clangoured, crenulated, fraudulent, gardenfuls, granduncle, granulated, landlubber, launderers, laundering, laundrette, laundrymen, nondurable, outlanders, outlearned, peduncular, prudential, quadrangle, refundable, relaunched, roundelays, roundtable, rudimental, slanderous, ultradense, undeclared, underclass, underglaze, underplays, undervalue, unenlarged, unheralded, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unrevealed, unrivalled, unsalaried, untraveled, wanderlust.
	+4 letters: adulterants, bladdernuts, candelabrum, dangerously, delusionary, denumerable, denumerably, durableness, faultfinder, fluorinated, fraudulence, gradualness, granduncles, journalized, landlubbers, launderette, laundresses, laundrettes, naturalised, naturalized, neutralised, neutralized, nondurables, pastureland, quadrangles, quadrennial, radiolucent, reductional, redundantly, roundtables, semidiurnal, thunderclap, transvalued, ultramodern, unclarified, underglazes, underlapped, underlaying, underplayed, undervalued, undervalues, undesirable, undesirably, undrinkable, unendurable, unendurably, unguardedly, unlaundered, unliberated, unpolarized, unreclaimed, unregulated, unscrambled, untrammeled, unweariedly, wanderlusts.
	+5 letters: adulterating, adulteration, appendicular, battleground, candelabrums, clairaudient, denaturalize, denuclearize, deregulating, deregulation, dreadfulness, dreamfulness, edulcorating, faultfinders, fraudulences, fraudulently, furazolidone, harlequinade, landlubberly, launderettes, lifeguarding, malnourished, nonregulated, outgeneraled, pasturelands, prudentially, quadrennials, quadrivalent, radiolucency, radionuclide, reinoculated, singularized, slanderously, sluggardness, strangulated, thunderclaps, tranquilized, triangulated, ultrarefined, unaffordable, unbridgeable, uncalibrated, uncelebrated, uncirculated, uncorrelated, underclasses, underlapping, underlayment, underplaying, undervaluing, undesirables, unformulated, unglamorized, unmanneredly, unparalleled, unpardonable, unredeemable, untranslated, unverbalized, valetudinary.
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