English-Portuguese translations for launder

• lavar
  Como acontece com todas as grandes viragens, também esta está exposta a perigos; neste caso, o risco é que a Europa se torne uma grande máquina de lavar para a reciclagem de dinheiro sujo. Like with all great actions, this one has its risks: in this case, the risk is that Europe will become a great washing machine to launder money.
  Serve-se de Srebrenica para lavar esta guerra suja e legitimar os próximos movimentos para voltar a dividir os Balcãs e as intervenções imperialistas planeadas para toda a região. It is using Srebrenica to launder this dirty war and to legalise forthcoming movements to redivide the Balkans and imperialist interventions planned in the area as a whole.

Definition of launder

• A washerwoman or washerman
• A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill
• A gutter (for rainwater
• To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron
• To disguise the source of by various means

Related words

• launderette
• laundering
• launderer
• antilaundering
• money laundering
• money launderer