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Noun garnishment has 1 sense

• garnishment(n = noun.communication) - 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;
is a kind of court order
Derived form verb garnish₁

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THESAURUS

garnishment

adjunct, adornment, angary, annexation, annexure, arrangement, attachment, certiorari, citation, collectivization, color, color patterns, commandeering, communalization, communization, confiscation, decor, decoration, distraint, distress, elaboration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, eminent domain, execution, expropriation, flourish, flower arrangement, furniture arrangement, garnish, garniture, habeas corpus, illumination, impoundment, impressment, levy, monition, nationalization, ornament, ornamentation, right of angary, sequestration, socialization, subpoena, summons, trim, trimming, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, window dressing, writ of summons

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