linens

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I think the handling linens issue goes away when you rethink the bed, linens and machinery as a whole.

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Quick take

Undergarments, underwear.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of linens gathered in one view.

noun

Undergarments, underwear.

noun

Household textiles made of linen-like cloth (such as cotton fabric), including tablecloths and bed sheets. The singular, linen, of this sense is rare.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for linens.

noun

Undergarments, underwear.

noun

Household textiles made of linen-like cloth (such as cotton fabric), including tablecloths and bed sheets. The singular, linen, of this sense is rare.

Example sentences

I think the handling linens issue goes away when you rethink the bed, linens and machinery as a whole.

If they contracted with a firm to provide bed linens, and haven't seen the performance of these linens in service, would they sign 20 year iron-clad deals?

You can't have a maid supervisor make sure the room was clean and all the linens are in place.

Except for handling linens, most hotel jobs could be automated in a hotel designed for that.

In USA, You get a lot more sanitary running water and air conditioning and bed linens for your quarter-monthly wage.

Even doing something simple, and highly constrained like changing the linens on the bed, is still 5 years out (at least).

While he was in the ICU especially, you could tell: there was a bin for soiled linens, a bin for trash....

Local artisans could provide cool pillows, pictures, linens--not a whole lot, but really well curated.

I know some hospitals are experimenting with robots to assist staff by transporting items like food and linens.

They provide you with non-plastic silverware and linens that they later have to wash.

Those linens could then be dispensed through internal chutes into a laundry room.

Hoarding fine linens, brilliant jewels, and the like would've served a different purpose.

Quote examples

And with "yelp" style reviews hopefully discloure is possible (ie, are the linens Ok or is there mold etc).

One is in "art and antiques" and the other is in "bedding linens" I don't recall purchasing anything in either of those categories online.

"However, they struggle to organize cleaning, keys, change of linens etc." Sounds like something that YC backed homejoy could get involved in solving.