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词汇 laundry
释义 laundry
noun
uk /ˈlɔːn.dri/ us /ˈlɑːn.dri/
B2[ U ]
the dirty clothes and sheets that need to be, are being, or have been washed: 待洗(或正在洗涤、洗完)的衣物
I've got to do(= wash) my laundry.我得把衣服洗了。
[ C ]
a business that washes clothes, sheets, etc. for customers洗衣店
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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airer
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a laundry list

laundry | American Dictionary


laundry
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈlɔn·dri, ˈlɑn-/
clothing, bed sheets, etc., that have been or need to be washed:
[ U ]piles of dirty laundry
A laundry is also a room in a house where clothes, bed sheets, etc., are washed, or a business that washes clothes, bed sheets, etc., for customers.

laundry | Business English


laundry
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɔːndri/usplurallaundries
LAW, FINANCE
an organization that hides the origin of money earned illegally and makes it seem legal:
Evidence of the bank serving as a money laundry in the bailout scandal has been identified.

Examples of laundry


laundry
Visiting laundries and tailors became slightly more popular for all groups of residents, except non-employed women.
The pay in laundries is very poor, they can't afford to pay more, that is what they say.
The labour press reported major strikes among women workers in a number of occupations including laundries and engineering works.
Firms that usually just sell in these local markets include laundries, florist shops, hairdressers and bicycle-repair shops.
Day-care centres for children, public laundries and canteens were to take over domestic tasks from the family.
I hope she's going to fall in the laundry soon.
Meals would be cooked, linen washed and clothes made and repaired by public caterers, laundry workers and needlewomen.
Examples are coatings for hard surfaces in industry and domestic use, laundry hygiene and oral care products.
The rigid division of household responsibilities involved an enormous difference in time spent on laundry and ironing.
Beneath them were the usual departments associated with a great medieval household: bakehouse, pantry, spicery, laundry.
Another painting on the recessed wall was the laundry.
Don't put all the laundry in the machine together.
The majority of the assessments included items on cooking, housework and laundry activities.
If that is so, it is difficult for laundries to pass on increased costs in the form of higher prices without finding turnover reduced.
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Most laundries will find their profit margins to be extremely low.
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Collocations withlaundry


laundry

These are words often used in combination with laundry.

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dirty laundry
In my opinion, it is normal to wash your dirtylaundry at home and not out in the street.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
laundry facility
There is also a communal laundryfacility (launderette) in the building.
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Wikipedia

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laundry machine
International student apartments are equipped with living facilities, including the kitchen, toilet, central heating, air conditioning, refrigerator and laundry machine.
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