(n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
(v. i.) To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.
(v. i.) To lave; to wet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(2) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(3) Britain’s high street banks processed nearly $740m from a vast money-laundering operation run by Russian criminals with links to the Russian government and the KGB, the Guardian can reveal.
(4) Documents seen by the Guardian show British-registered firms played a prominent role in the money laundering network – and the UK’s high street banks processed almost $740m from the operation without turning back any of the payments.
(5) • Bitcoin Foundation vice chair resigns amid money-laundering investigation
(6) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
(7) A long-term non-executive director of banking group HSBC – which paid a fine of $1.9bn in 2012 to settle US money-laundering accusations involving Mexican and Colombian drug cartels – Fairhead has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
(8) His former deputy prime minister, Damir Polančec, was charged in September in the biggest case concerning alleged embezzlement and money laundering to the tune of €60m (£50m) at the country's largest food company.
(9) As Cristina was a board member of the foundation and the couple jointly owned a separate company, Aizoon, suspected of being used as a front to launder money, Castro noted on several occasions during his investigation that it would have been difficult for Urdangarin to engage in the alleged activities without his wife’s knowledge.
(10) She was the defence lawyer for Denis Katsyv, a Russian businessman accused of laundering a portion of the proceeds from a $230m tax fraud uncovered by the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who later died in jail and whose name was used in the sanctions act.
(11) In its report, the FCA said: "Given our strong regulatory focus and previous publications on anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption we expected firms to have taken more action.
(12) TeliaSonera, also under investigation in the United States and the Netherlands, denies allegations of bribery and money-laundering, but has acknowledged that “the processes for conducting some transactions have not been in line with sound business practices”.
(13) The bank had allowed narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries.
(14) As a result, we now have more consumers, bigger criminal organisations, money laundering, arms trafficking and collateral damage."
(15) In a separate amnesty case, the supreme court this week called the prime minister "not honest", and ordered the government to revive a corruption investigation against Zardari, relating to alleged money-laundering in Switzerland dating back to the 1990s.
(16) Shrem, as the compliance officer of the exchange, was in charge of ensuring its compliance of anti-money laundering rules.
(17) Lesser writers on Mexico, including myself, have insisted that the line between legitimacy and criminality, upon which Mexico’s international relations are based, is a fantasy, that the line between legality and illegality is a lie, not only within Mexico, but internationally, with regard to the laundering of the profits of crime.
(18) HSBC has apologised for "shameful" systems breakdowns that failed to stop the bank from laundering money for terrorists and drug barons as it set aside $700m (£445m) for potential fines in the US and another $1.3bn for mis-selling financial products in the UK.
(19) Peaks of pollution not associated with rainfall episodes could have resulted from the practice of communal laundering in the near vicinity of the wells.
(20) Even if I am suspended, I am still the president.” But he was a much-diminished and frailer figure than the one who stood on stage in a Zurich conference hall days after US prosecutors had indicted nine senior Fifa officials among 14 football executives charged with money laundering and corruption offences.
Lave
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
(v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.
(v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.
(n.) The remainder; others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The additional fact that magnetite in lave flows also provides a persistent handed site for surface catalysis offers a further argument for the experimental investigation of this specific biopoetic environment.
(2) IFN alpha was localized to fetal chorionic villous syncytiotrophoblast throughout normal pregnancy, as well as to extravillous trophoblast in the placental bed and chorion lave.
(3) The number of mRNAov per tubular gland cell was also determined for egg-laving hen.
(4) The families were not significantly different in their functioning when compared to family norms established by Olson, Portner, and Lavee (1985).
(5) It is shown that the models used by Lave and Lave and by Steinwald and Neuhauser to generate empirical evidence can give different policy recommendations depending on the relative size of the proprietary and nonprofit bed stocks.
(6) Singer’s Los Angeles-based firm Lavely & Singer represents more than a dozen of the women affected, the director Bryan Singer and the actors John Travolta and Charlie Sheen.
(7) A framework for developing such rules based upon minimizing costs of false-positives and false-negatives was presented in a seminal paper by Lave and Omenn (1986, Nature (London), 324, 29-34).
(8) Lavely & Singer has written to various website operators and internet service providers (ISPs) demanding that the images be taken down under the DMCA.
(9) This is what the message said, printed in capitals (I’ve left the original spelling): “This is a lave [leave] area.