laundry

Plural: laundries

Noun

• Clothes to be or already washed.
• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
• workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
• A laundering; a washing.
• A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
• That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
• A penalty flag.
• A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

Examples

• His Words With Friends rack was a mess, like a pile of LAUNDRY needing to be sorted into words.
• In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
• You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.

Synonyms

wash, washables, washing, laundrette, laundromat, lavatory, washateria