garnishee
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A third party holding money owed to a debtor who is ordered by the court to pay it to the creditor.
The bank, as garnishee, was directed to pay the frozen funds directly to the judgment creditor.
Business verb
To divert part of a debtor's wages or bank funds to a creditor by legal order.
When he ignored the judgment, the court moved to garnishee his salary at source each payday.
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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