garnishee
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a wage earner who is served with a garnishment
Types & categories
- earner hypernym
Sense 2 verb
take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt
Types & categories
- impound hypernym
Related & opposite
- garnishment derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | earner |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | garnishment |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | impound |