(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.
Wash
Definition:
(v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
(v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
(v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
(v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
(v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
(v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
(v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
(v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
(n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
(n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
(n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
(n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
(n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
(n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
(n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
(n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
(n.) A liquid dentifrice.
(n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
(n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
(n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
(n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
(n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
(n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
(n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
(a.) Washy; weak.
(a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(3) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(4) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
(5) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
(6) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(7) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
(8) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
(9) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(10) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
(11) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(12) The ratio of the metabolically produced Ic to Ib but not the total amount of N-oxygenated metabolites varied greatly depending of the liver microsomal fractions used in the incubation mixtures of Ia; more Ib was produced from Ia using 9000 g supernatant and conversely, more Ic was formed using the washed microsomes of the same liver.
(13) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(14) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
(15) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
(16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
(17) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(18) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(19) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(20) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .