[ˈlɔːndə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- wash and iron (clothes or linen)
(e.g: he wasn't used to laundering his own bed linen)

- conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally), typically by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses
(e.g: $123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’

[ˈlɔːndə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’