witwassen
Meaning
- (transitive) to wash up, clean especially with a whitening agent
- (transitive) to launder (money); to guise (something illegal) as legal
Concepts
money laundering
Frequency
Hyphenated as
wit‧was‧sen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋɪtˌʋɑ.sə(n)/
Etymology
Compound of wit + wassen. The sense “to launder (money)” was influenced by English launder.
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