launderer
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- noun
- /ˈlɔːndərər/
- NSFW
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lavador de dinero
- Even more troubling is the latest wrinkle: the money launderers have begun to buy equity in international banks.
- a money launderer
Just to be clear, money launderers don't need crypto currencies to do what they do.
- Just to be clear, money launderers don't need crypto currencies to do what they do.
- The problem is how do you stop money launderers, criminals, organised criminals, terrorists using these islands?
Examples
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Bank presidents began realizing that dealing with money launderers was simply bad business.
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The FBI has identified several prominent money launderers operating within the city's underground economy.
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You know who's the biggest money launderer in the US?
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At the airport you tell them you have a gift from the number one money launderer from the Russian mafia.
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The money launderers moved on to the next destination.
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We've had some intelligence from a potential source, the principal money launderer for the Russian mafia.
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The problem is how do you stop money launderers, criminals, organised criminals, terrorists using these islands?
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By the time U.S. agents show up in Switzerland with a search warrant, the funds in the Swiss bank account of the money launderer appear entirely legitimate -- proceeds of a coffee transaction.
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Your clients are drug cartels, money launderers, third-world warlords.
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Unfazed, money launderers have been finding, more quickly than their pursuers can detect, new countries and a panoply of innovative, if often expensive, techniques.
Academic text (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word launderer is also used for someone who 'washes' illegal money to make it look clean; this meaning comes from the image of laundry 'cleaning' clothes, so a launderer of money is someone who makes dirty funds appear legal.