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# laundry

noun (laundry — no plural; a laundry, laundries for the place)

«laundry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Clothes, sheets and towels that need washing or have just been washed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m1)
2. The job of washing them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m2)
3. A room or a business where clothes are washed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, children help with the laundry: sorting colours from whites, hanging washing out, folding and putting it away. In safety lessons, laundry detergent pods and powders are poisonous — never touch or eat them, and keep them away from small children. In science, washing shows how soap removes grease and how wet clothes dry by evaporation. Phrases: «do the laundry», «laundry basket», «dirty laundry», «laundry room».

### Examples

- Put your dirty socks in the laundry basket. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x1)
- Dad does the laundry on Sundays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x2)
- Help me fold the clean laundry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x3)
- The laundry dried quickly on the line in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x4)
- Laundry pods look like sweets but are poisonous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x5)
- Our flats have a shared laundry in the basement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x6)
- Sort the laundry into dark and light colours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x7)
- The hotel sends the sheets to a laundry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable for the clothes: «a lot of laundry», not «laundries». Similar: «washing» (British). Don't air dirty laundry in public means don't talk about private family problems to everyone.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «laundry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«laundry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/laundry.html) on Mova free.