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Garnishment   /gˈɑrnɪʃmənt/   Listen
Garnishment

noun
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.





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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


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