Actually, there was a secret reason for the industry of the two laundrymen.

Of course; the laundryman would be expecting his tip now.

To the laundryman, that means being ready for whoever comes walking through the door.

I grew up in Astoria; my father was a hand laundryman.

The two "laundrymen" were armed, but never had a chance to prove it.

His has been a hardscrabble life, spent mostly as a laundryman.

Martin took a bath, after which he found that the head laundryman had disappeared.

The bald laundryman was pushing his basket down the other corridor.

"Don't let a bunch of Chinese laundrymen stop you."

My own laundryman and I have an understanding.

"I shall have to call the laundrymen to inquire after their rates," the manager said.

In Laundrymen, teams had to traditionally wash 50 dirty sheets.

"I must have given your shirts to another woman I've never seen before," the laundryman said matter-of-factly.

On Tuesday night the new laundrymen arrived, and the rest of the week was spent breaking them into the routine.

The laundryman's family has worked for decades in this outpost beyond the subway's reach.

His father was a Chinese immigrant who worked as a laundryman and dry goods merchant.

The laundryman was crossing something out on his clipboard.

She thought of the laundryman with his basket.

He wasn't going anywhere till the laundryman got done with his clothes, and this would be more fun than lunch.

The laundrymen came in, picked up the big basket between them and dumped its contents all over the floor.

The laundrymen were leaning back against the wall out there in the service passageway, waiting to take away the wash.

Many have now become rickshaw pullers or are employed as laundrymen.

Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman.

The hapless laundryman's knees buckled and he collapsed without a sound.

When cross-examined, none of them could remember any mysterious Chinese who ever visited their local laundryman.

New York city would be nothing without the money launderers.

"I should have expected nothing less from a money launderer."

She took refuge in the house of an old man, who was a launderer.

"It's using the same approach with international drug dealers or money launderers."

Most of the serious money launderers stay away from the Bahamas.

The next season, the couple became the Generals' pick as official launderers.

O.K., so the part about the money launderer is just an act.

But will the money launderers and the drug-runners suddenly find they have no friends?

One former executive is identified in Federal law enforcement records as a known money launderer.

Today the largest is only $100, largely to thwart money launderers.

The drug trade has to be disrupted by going after the buyers and money launderers first.

Conditions were hard and a typical launderer worked for ten to sixteen hours a day.

Because the old launderer was childless, he took the baby girl and raised her as his own daughter.

Probably a few drug dealers and money launderers, too.

The insurance industry is also vulnerable to money launderers.

"Computer runs alone cannot flush out most of the money launderers.

He is told by the launderer that he was found and sets out to find his true parents.

She is watching a group of Chinese launderers who are working at large tubs under a tree.

"Money launderers don't want to sit on their money when they get it.

Was he a money launderer for the drug artel?

So the moral of this story is to get a good money launderer before perpetrating international fraud?

"There's a fee involved;" he said, like a seasoned money launderer.

But some experts argue that even the best controls may not catch a determined money launderer.

"The overall operation demonstrates characteristics frequently used by money launderers," the report said.

The Kremlin estimates that launderers illegally move $20 billion abroad every year.