garnishment

1. 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

   Broadercourt order

   law

Other forms of garnishment

plural

garnishments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about garnishment

What does garnishment mean?

garnishment means "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".

How many syllables are in garnishment?

garnishment has 3 syllables: gar-nish-ment. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃmənt/.

Is garnishment a common word?

garnishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.