Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun garnishment

1 sense of garnishment

Sense 1
garnishment -- (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)
       => court order -- (a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something)