laundry

/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ noun B2

A laundering; a washing. (countable, uncountable) · In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing. (countable, uncountable)
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. (countable, uncountable) · You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
A penalty flag. (countable, slang, uncountable)
A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally. (countable, uncountable)

Plural laundries

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“And I couldn’t bear to have you give up your lessons; and I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry.

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1

And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit.

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1

I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks.”

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1

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