laundry

noun

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laun·dry | \ ˈlȯn-drē

, ˈlän- \

plural laundries

Definition of laundry

1a : a room for doing the family wash

b : a commercial laundering establishment

2 : clothes or linens that have been or are to be laundered

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Examples of laundry in a Sentence

There's a pile of dirty laundry in the laundry basket. The patients' sheets are sent regularly to the hospital laundry.

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