Garnishee (Verb)
Meaning
Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt".
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The court ruled that the debt collector could garnishee his wages as a means of collecting the outstanding debt.
- To pay the overdue alimony, the judge ordered the ex-husband's employer to garnishee his paychecks.
- The creditor asked the court to garnishee her employee's salary to recover the amount owed.
- As part of the settlement, the court instructed her employer to garnishee a portion of her wages each month.
- The government agency garnished his wages to collect the unpaid taxes.