Garnishment
nounid
64419·updated May 18, 2026verified
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
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Garnishments
- possessive
- Garnishment's
- pluralpossessive
- Garnishments'
Framework definitions
- §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
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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 employeeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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