Synonyms of the word garnishee


GARNISHEEATTACH - CONFISCATE - EARNER - GARNISH - IMPOUND - SEIZE - SEQUESTER

garnishee

  • n. (law) the person whose money is garnished.
  • v. (transitive, law) the act of attaching the property sought to be secured.

attach

  • v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
  • v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
  • v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  • v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
  • v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  • v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

confiscate

  • v. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
  • adj. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

earner

  • n. One who earns money.
  • n. (Britain) A profitable product or scheme.

garnish

  • v. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
  • v. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
  • v. To furnish; to supply.
  • v. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
  • v. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
  • n. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • n. Pewter vessels in general.
  • n. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy…
  • n. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • n. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from…

impound

  • v. (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
  • v. (transitive) To hold back (for example water by a dam).
  • v. (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
  • v. (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on…
  • n. A place in which things are impounded.
  • n. A state of being impounded.
  • n. That which has been impounded.
  • n. (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for…

seize

  • v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
  • v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
  • v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  • v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
  • v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

sequester

  • v. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
  • v. To separate in order to store.
  • v. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  • v. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
  • v. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against…
  • v. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,…
  • v. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
  • v. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
  • v. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
  • v. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
  • n. sequestration; separation.
  • n. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy;…
  • n. (medicine) A sequestrum.

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