laundry detergent

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   any of various detergents designed for use in a washing machine for clothing

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Questions about laundry detergent

What does laundry detergent mean?

laundry detergent means "any of various detergents designed for use in a washing machine for clothing".

Is laundry detergent a common word?

laundry detergent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.