Definition of "launder" []

• To wash (clothes, for example). (verb-transitive)
• To wash, fold, and iron: shirts that were neatly laundered by the hotel staff. (verb-transitive)
• To disguise the source or nature of (illegal funds, for example) by channeling through an intermediate agent. (verb-transitive)
• To make more acceptable or presentable, sanitize: "The transcripts are, of course, laundered . . . unidentified larger chunks of conversation are reported missing throughout” ( Eliot Fremont-Smith). (verb-transitive)
• To undergo washing in a specified way: This material launders well. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "“I’ve been fighting the phrase launder the coffee,” Lew said."
• "It's long been known that charity and philanthropic sector ventures can be used and abused as a way to clean wash aka launder and shuffle around money."
• "Angle agreed with Bachmann's claim that the Dems 'state aid package, which is meant to help cash-strapped states avert layoffs of teachers, cops and firefighters, is really a scheme designed to "launder" money for Dem campaigns via public employee unions."