Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.

    Pfändung, Zahlungsverbot an den Drittschuldner

More definitions
  • 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

Translations

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By meaning 1
a judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff:

Forms

plural: garnishments
Singulargarnishment
Pluralgarnishments

regular

Word family

2 related words

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