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Garnishment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From garnish + -ment.

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