📖 Definitions of "Launders"
noun
- 1
A washerwoman or washerman.
- 2
A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
- 3
A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
- 4
A gutter (for rainwater).
verb
- 1
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- 2
To lave; to wet.
- 3
(money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Launders"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| washverb | (transitive) To clean with water. |
| smugglesverb | (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties |
| extortsverb | (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. |
| embezzlesverb | (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. |
| confiscatesverb | (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder. |
| collectsverb | (transitive) To gather together; amass. |
| siphonsnoun | A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another. |
| pilfers | an American ska band formed in 1997, when former Toasters vocalist, Coolie Ranx, at the urging of Pietaster's vocalist Steve Jackson, joined with former Bim Skala Bim trombonist, Vinny Nobile. |
| black marketeeringnoun | The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market. |
| bilksverb | (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). |
| plundersverb | (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack. |
| lootsverb | (slang) Synonym of money. |
| kidnapsverb | (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. |
| sterilizesverb | (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product. |
| racketeersnoun | One who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business. |
| funnelsnoun | A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening. |
| reshippingnoun | Act of shipping something again. |
| cleansverb | (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object. |
| rearmsnoun | To arm, or prepare for use, again. |
| illicitly | In an illicit manner; illegally, immorally, or inappropriately. |
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