To provide a washing/drying machine by which water can be saved by using a condensate water.

The washing/drying machine according to the present invention has a water tank arranged in an outer frame casing body, a washing/drying tank rotatably arranged in the water tank and accommodating laundry, a compressor compressing a coolant, a radiator radiating the heat of the compressed coolant, a control valve reducing the pressure of the compressed coolant, and a heat pump unit having a heat absorber in which the coolant decompressed to be low pressure takes heat from surrounding. The heat pump unit is arranged in the lower side of the water tank, and a water storing tank storing the dew condensate condensed by the heat pump unit is arranged in the space of the outer frame casing body formed in the lower side of the heat pump unit.

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