to garnish
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8.4
- verb
- /ˈɡɑrnɪʃ/
- Formal
:
embargar
- If the ex-student cannot make the ridiculously high payments, the collection agency will garnish the wages.
- garnished wages
- garnished paycheck
- garnish pay
However, your stimulus check cannot be garnished for state, federal, and bank debt garnishments.
- However, your stimulus check cannot be garnished for state, federal, and bank debt garnishments.
- That way she can take it like have his wages garnished.
Examples
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Well, I shall just garnish your wages until the pilfered items are returned.
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Atkinson brought suit against the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a designated international organization, to garnish the wages of her ex-husband, an IDB employee who had failed to pay child support and alimony.
Academic text (2017) -
They garnish all your wages.
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Then the state started garnishing my checks, the whole thing!
Blog text (9) -
They will still be able to garnish your wages with a court order.
Blog text (24) -
The systems they have now for garnishing people's wages work just fine.
Blog text (21) -
They will go to court and ask the judge to allow them to garnish the wages of the person who won't pay and won't answer the phone.
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The DHS is fed up with the waiting game, so it's asking a judge to lock up Holyfield and garnish his wages until he ante's up the back support.
Blog text (3) -
Strapped for cash, a local government in Henan Province is trying to garnish the wages of teachers to build two new schools, and the teachers aren't happy.
Blog text (24) -
A court decided that they would garnish his wages to ensure he paid child support.
Synonyms
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9.8
To take part of someone's wages or money from their bank account by court order to pay a debt
Phrasal Verbs
To add small food items, like herbs or lemon peel, to a dish to make it look nicer
Compounds
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
The legal sense of garnish also comes from the old French garnir, where the word was used in court to mean 'to take' or 'to hold' money for a debt. That's why to have your wages garnished means part of your pay is legally taken to pay someone else.