Meaning & use
Launderer
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A person or business whose job is to wash and clean clothes and other fabrics.
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The hotel sends its linens out to a commercial launderer twice a week.
As a young man, he worked as a launderer in a busy city laundromat.
A note on using this word
In finance and crime reporting, 'launderer' commonly refers instead to someone who disguises the origins of illegally obtained money, a figurative extension of the original sense.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A person who disguises the origins of illegally obtained money by passing it through legitimate businesses.
Investigators traced the funds back to a well-known money launderer.
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