attachment of earnings
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An enforcement method by which sums are deducted directly from a judgment debtor's wages.
When instalments went unpaid, the court ordered an attachment of earnings so the money came straight out of his salary.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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