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