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Garnishee

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

gar=nish=ee

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Garnishee has 1 sense

garnishee(n = noun.person) Array - a wage earner who is served with a garnishment; Array

is a kind of

earner

wage earner

Verb Garnishee has 1 sense

garnishee(v = verb.possession) garnish - take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt"

is one way to attach, confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Garnishee, n.

One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. [1913 Webster]

" The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order." [1913 Webster]

Garnishee, v. t.

To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Garnishee, n. & v. Law
--n. a person garnished.
--v.tr. (garnishees, garnisheed)
1 garnish (a person).
2 attach (money etc.) by way of garnishment.

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ROGET THESAURUS

Garnishee

Consignee

N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.

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