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laundromat

[ lawn-druh-mat, lahn- ]

noun

  1. a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.


Laundromat

/ ˈɔːԻəˌæ /

noun

  1. a commercial establishment where clothes can be washed and dried, using coin-operated machines Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)Launderettelaundrette
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of laundromat1

First recorded in 1940–45; formerly a trademark, originally a brand of washer
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The group’s reporting has been involved with some of the biggest international corruption stories in recent memory, including the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and the Russian Laundromat.

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“When you are piling on gas and groceries and trips to the laundromat, all your everyday expenses are going to these credit cards, you’re running up this debt at an average interest rate of about 22, 23%,” especially in places where the median household incomes are low.

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Parton and Dean met outside a laundromat in 1964, when she was 18 and he was 21.

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The singer, known for songs such as 9-5 and Jolene, met Dean outside a laundromat the first day she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old aspiring singer.

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The couple married in 1966, just two short years after meeting at a laundromat in Nashville when Parton was 18 and Dean was 21.

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