laundry service

collocation in English

meaningsoflaundryandservice

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laundry
noun
uk
/ˈlɔːn.dri/us
/ˈlɑːn.dri/
the dirty clothes and sheets that need to be, are being, or have ...
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service
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.vɪs/us
/ˈsɝː.vɪs/
a government system or private organization that is responsible for a particular type of activity, or for providing a particular thing that ...
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(Definition oflaundryandservicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From left to right, there is a dry-cleaner, another general store, a pharmacy, and alaundryservice.
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There alaundryserviceis run by the local authority.
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The hospital then has to depend upon a privatelaundryservice.
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Since then, thelaundryservicein my district health authority has gone from bad to worse.
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They referred to the poorlaundryservice, threadbare sheets and a toilet without a seat at a teaching hospital.
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She's waiting to hear whether alaundryservicecould be made available.
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On that definition, contracting out a hospital'slaundryserviceis a public-private partnership.
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Thelaundryservicestaff was not given time to train on this new and sophisticated equipment, which it had not seen before.
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He will be providing a nationallaundryserviceand will simultaneously be managing a large number of lucrative city centre office properties.
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If a hospitallaundryserviceis deemed by some slick—suited individual from a biscuit company to be inefficient and overpriced, it is privatised.
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Laundryserviceat the general hospital is now reduced to below emergency requirements.
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A personallaundryserviceis also necessary if some old people are going to be kept in their own homes in a state of decency.
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Probably in every case there will be available a private firm which can provide alaundryservice.
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It is a health service; it is not a cleaning service, catering service or alaundryservice.
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My district health authority faces chaos because thelaundryservicewas put out to private tender.
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No urgent housing repairs are being conducted, the switchboard is on strike, the homeless families unit is not working and even the incontinentlaundryserviceis out of operation.
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There should be the provision of a regularlaundryservicefor overalls as well as for oil-soaked clothing of all kinds, and there should, of course, be good washing facilities.
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Scotland what consideration he is giving to the need to provide alaundryservicefor incontinent old people, where this would enable them to avoid entering hospital.
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Undoubtedly—and this is a political point, particularly in the present year—there has been great expansion of subcontract work for local authorities and hospitals, and especially the hospitallaundryservice.
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