launderette
launderette — noun
1. a shop with machines that customers operate to get their own clothes washed and
a shop with machines that customers operate to get their own clothes washed and dried, paying per load
Noa takes her bedsheets to the launderette every Sunday morning.
collocation: take [items] to the launderette
The launderette on Green Street stays open until eleven at night.
launderette as subject with location verb
Instead of buying a dryer, the Li family uses the launderette on weekends.
The shirts dried in under an hour inside the launderette's big machines.
There is a new launderette opening next to the post office.
- laundromat
American English term for the same concept
- self-service laundry
more formal or descriptive; less common in everyday speech
- washateria
dated US regional term, still heard in parts of the southern US and Texas
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British English term; the American equivalent is 'laundromat'. Also frequently spelled 'laundrette' (especially in BrE). Refers only to self-service facilities where customers operate the machines themselves, not to a full-service dry cleaner or drop-off laundry service.