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/gˈɑrnɪʃmənt/ Listen

Garnishment

noun

A court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee.

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"Garnishment" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon his difficulties is already too long, or I might mention the Laird's inexperience in the art of making the worse appear the better garnishment, of hiding a darned carpet with a new floor-cloth, and flinging an Indian shawl over a faded and threadbare sofa. But I have said enough, and more than enough, to explain his dilemma to an unassisted bachelor, who, without mother, sister, or cousin, without skilful housekeeper, ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Garnishment" : garnish, court order, law, jurisprudence