GARNISHEE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A wage earner who is served with a garnishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("garnishee" is a kind of...):

earner; wage earner (someone who earn wages in return for their labor)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garnishee ... he / she / it garnishees

Past simple: garnisheed

Past participle: garnisheed

-ing form: garnisheeing

Meaning:

Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support

Example:

His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt

Synonyms:

garnish; garnishee

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "garnishee" is one way to...):

attach; confiscate; impound; seize; sequester (take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something