garnishee
Americanverb (used with object)
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to attach (money or property) by garnishment.
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to serve (a person) with a garnishment.
noun
noun
verb
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to attach (a debt or other property) by garnishment
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to serve (a person) with a garnishment
Etymology
Origin of garnishee
Example Sentences
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The agency can't put people in jail or garnishee wages to get the money.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
The burly engineer hunted down the two departments--accounting and human resources--that were about to garnishee his wages to pay overdue taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, a creditor generally cannot imprison his debtor, nor can he garnishee his salary without a court order.
From Time Magazine Archive
A question of private ownership not worth a garnishee might set a whole nation afire!
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington
You are correct in saying, in your answer as garnishee, that I have been an active and decided friend of Peace.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
The candidate’s husband, Gail, won a judgment against the painter and had his property garnisheed when he was unable to pay the sum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2014
Ms. Cordeiro has already had two tax refunds seized, and other debtors have had their paychecks or Social Security payments garnisheed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
About 98,000 borrowers are having their wages garnisheed, the agency said.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 28, 2010
They, like many others, have credit histories riddled with problems, past-due debts and, in some cases, civil judgments just waiting for them to find work so their paychecks can be garnisheed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2010
He had been earning $50 a week in a shop where he had worked for eighteen years and he would not endure having his wages garnisheed for debt.
From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Colcord, Joanna C.
Of that, $1.65 billion came from seizures of government checks like tax returns and $1.01 billion was collected by garnisheeing borrowers’ wages.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
If ConServe reaches a borrower who refuses to cooperate, the company considers garnisheeing wages or withholding a government check, which requires approval from the Department of Education.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
In others it has raised child-support collections by upgrading computer systems and improving procedures for garnisheeing the wages of absent fathers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I don't know the process," said Ralph, "never having had any experience in that class of business, but I should say garnisheeing in this case would simply be sending good money after bad."
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
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