The phrase "automatic washing machine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of washing machine that operates without manual intervention, typically found in households.
Example: "I just bought a new automatic washing machine that can wash and dry clothes in one cycle."
Alternatives: "self-operating washing machine" or "fully automatic washer."
"A collision of technologies, indoor plumbing, electricity and the affordable automatic washing machine have all but put paid to large laundries and the drudgery of hand-washing," says the report.
Lazy because this was long before the average household could afford an automatic washing machine and doing the laundry meant boiling, scrubbing, rinsing and mangling before hanging out to dry.
Xiaojia said, "We should buy a full set of home appliances, a VCD player, a 29-inch television set, an automatic washing machine, an air-conditioner, and a complete set of wooden floors".
Assistive devices, like the automatic washing machine for humans, can be helpful tools, but will ultimately prove unable to close the huge gap between the disabled elderly's growing need for long-term care and the diminishing supply of paraprofessionals who provide hands-on assistance.
When the strikers tally up what their small raise will buy them over the next five years, one of them sings, "That's enough for me to get /An automatic washing machine /A year's supply of gasoline / Carpeting for the living room /A vacuum instead of the blasted broom".
Laundry was done outside, an all-day, muscle-intensive process that began with a huge vat of boiling water suspended over a roaring fire – imagine that on a July day in Texas – next to which someone – almost always the farm wife – would stand "punching" clothes with a paddle or broomstick, the human equivalent of an automatic washing machine.
Other widely used plumbing fixtures include kitchen sinks, usually of cast iron or pressed steel with a ceramic porcelain coating, or of stainless steel; automatic dishwashing machines; and automatic washing machines for laundry.
No launderettes, no automatic washing machines, wash day every Monday, clothes boiled in a tub, scrubbed on the draining board....Abortion illegal, homosexual relationships illegal, suicide illegal, capital punishment legal.
Until well into the post-1945 era, many British women were still using cleaning equipment which had barely evolved... Until the advent of automatic washing machines, washday was – exactly that: a day devoted to washing".
Compared with life in the 1950s, life in the 1990s involved owning more cars, TVs and computers; we had invented automatic washing machines and vacuum cleaners; and we did our shopping in supermarkets rather than walking around multiple small local shops carrying shopping bags.
