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garnishment

DEFINITIONS OF: garnishment

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n 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

Type of:
court order
a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something
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