garnishment

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 106569818)
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a 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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