verb [VN]
1 (formal) to wash, dry and IRON clothes, etc:
freshly laundered sheets
2 to move money that has been obtained illegally into foreign bank accounts or legal businesses so that it is difficult for people to know where the money came from:
Most of the drugs money was laundered through Swiss bank accounts.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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