built-soap powder
- noun
- Specialized
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detergente en polvo
- Modern laundry products often contain built-soap powder to enhance stain removal.
Examples
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The laundry detergent contains built-soap powder for better stain removal.
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The janitorial staff prefers built-soap powder for cleaning heavily soiled floors.
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Environmental regulations have influenced the formulation of built-soap powder in recent years.
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I prefer using built-soap powders over regular detergents.
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Modern laundry products often contain built-soap powder to enhance stain removal.
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The janitorial staff prefers built-soap powder for cleaning heavily soiled floors.
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Environmental regulations have influenced the formulation of built-soap powder in recent years.
Synonyms
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1.0
A powder used to clean clothes in a washing machine
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1.6
A powder you add to water to clean clothes
Surface Forms
Morphology
built-soap + powder
A B1 learner who knows 'soap' and 'powder' can infer 'powder' and that this is a powdered soap product, but the element 'built' (referring to added alkaline 'builders') is technical and not predictable from the common sense meaning of 'build/built'. Because the overall sense relies partly on transparent constituents (soap + powder) but requires specialist knowledge to understand 'built' here, the expression is best judged as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Built-soap powder The noun built-soap powder comes from ordinary soap powder that has been built up with extra cleaning ingredients. Think of it as powder with 'built-in' cleaners added like extra blocks to make it work harder, so the name means soap powder with added cleaners to remove stains better.