GARNISHMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does garnishment mean? 

• GARNISHMENT (noun)
  The noun GARNISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GARNISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARNISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("garnishment" is a kind of...):

court order (a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

garnish (take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support)