laundry
articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.
a business establishment where clothes, linens, etc., are laundered.
a room or area, as in a home or apartment building, reserved for doing the family wash.
Origin of laundry
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How to use laundry in a sentence
Second, the laundry list of stakeholders in a given company—shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees, local communities, the planet—can have diverging interests.
FTC commissioner: Is antitrust the next stakeholder capitalism battleground? | jakemeth | September 26, 2020 | FortuneAnalysts have speculated about a laundry list of other innovations that could be part of Battery Day.
What Tesla’s Battery Day might reveal: Project Roadrunner, Model S Plaid, and more | dzanemorris | September 21, 2020 | FortuneThere is nothing like a ratty laundry bag or an old plastic laundry bin to make your laundry an eye sore.
Attractive laundry hampers that make your dirty clothes look a little better | PopSci Commerce Team | September 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFor three years, Brown did laundry for the Naval Academy during the day and served food in the cafeteria at Anne Arundel Medical Center at night.
She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right. | by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica | August 25, 2020 | ProPublicaAs a young unwed mother, Philomena Lee, like so many others, was sent to a convent and forced to work in the laundry.
As Americans, we still have a right to air both our dirty laundry and our R-Rated films.
These are two in a laundry list of troubling connections between the two companies.
The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL | Jack Holmes | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA new report says laundry detergent pods are sending 20,000 kids to the hospital each year.
Kids Eat the Darndest Things: Laundry Pods, Teething Necklaces, and More Of The Weirdest Stuff Sending Kids to the E.R. | Russell Saunders | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLie Down with Lions (1985) gave a shoutout to gays in a laundry list of human rights to worry about.
Popular Novelist Ken Follett Is a Slightly Unlikely and Certainly Unsung Gay Icon | William O’Connor | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is no running water there, nor gyms, nor fast food, nor laundry service.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEdna found her friend engaged in assorting the clothes which had returned that morning from the laundry.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinJess tiptoed over to the tin box on the table, drew out the two loaves of bread, and slipped them into the laundry bag.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerJess, who liked above all things to be orderly, spread out the big gray laundry bag on the pine needles for a tablecloth.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerTaking the scissors from Violet's workbag, she cut the laundry bag carefully into two pieces, saving the cord for a clothesline.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerA big pile of pine needles was loaded into the freight car for Henry's bed, and covered with the other half of the laundry bag.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
British Dictionary definitions for laundry
/ (ˈlɔːndrɪ) /
a place where clothes and linen are washed and ironed
the clothes or linen washed and ironed
the act of laundering
Origin of laundry
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with laundry
see wash one's dirty linen (laundry).
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