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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
garnishee .
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Examples
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For inmates who have to pay them, 5% of their wages—which top out at $5.15 an hour, according to Mr. Fuller—are garnisheed for deposit into Nevada's victims-compensation fund.
These Inmates Have License To Tool Around With Vintage Cars Joel Millman 2011
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Right now, you can pretty much kiss goodbye any chance of a government job if you've defaulted on a student loan, and the IRS has happily garnisheed income tax refunds for repayment of student loans for the last decade.
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(In one recent case, the Social Security payment to a person on disability was garnisheed.)
Apollo's Daughter :: Recession Discussion apollosdtr 2009
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(In one recent case, the Social Security payment to a person on disability was garnisheed.)
Apollo's Daughter :: February 21st, 2009 apollosdtr 2009
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Well maybe it's because she's fixin 'to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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That same day, Swanson signed an addendum to her contract with Famous Players-Lasky that added a picture to her contract for which she was to be paid $7,000 a week, with her salary garnisheed by $431 a week until the money was repaid.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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In a day dominated by familiar stump speeches, Hillary Clinton made news by saying she might allow workers 'wages to be garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance.
CNN Poll: Obama Leads Hillary Nationally By Three Points 2009
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What these people should do is be dragged through a three-month process of meetings, phone calls, letters of various threat levels, the hiring of a tax defense attorney, several arbitrary and probably highly unfair levies of additional penalties, the destruction of their credit rating, at least one garnisheed paycheck, and at least one typical bureaucratic screwup that takes five days of excruciating nit-picking to resolve.
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In a day dominated by familiar stump speeches, Hillary Clinton made news by saying she might allow workers 'wages to be garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance.
CNN Poll: Obama Leads Hillary Nationally By Three Points 2009
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Dotzauer's wages garnisheed to pay $1,374 consumer debt.
Sound Politics: Maria Cantwell was the "other woman" in lobbyist's divorce 2006
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