garnishment
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A legal process by which a debtor's wages or funds are attached to satisfy a tax debt.
Following the judgment, the authority sought garnishment of the taxpayer's bank balance.
Business noun
A legal order directing that money owed to a debtor, such as wages, be paid to a creditor instead.
The court authorised a garnishment of his salary to recover the unpaid loan.
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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