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  • verb Present participle of garnishee.

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Examples

  • Clinton's personal mandate would require some sort of enforcement mechanism, such as garnisheeing the wages of those who refuse to comply or automatically deducting the premiums from workers 'pay whether they agree to it or not.

    Misleading Pennsylvania Voters 2008

  • He also will pitch the idea of finding new tools to collect late child support payments -- such as garnisheeing casino winnings.

    IndyStar.com Top Stories 2010

  • Along with this gossip we hear about garnisheeing preacher's salaries - to make their creditors easy in mind and pocket - and I'll put my little bit of temperance politics in my own pocket, and give the "pastor" - the acrid gossip of Trinity church, and feel comforted in my poverty and bid him welcome to his riches - and the remarkable unity of Trinity church!

    Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth, 1901

  • The number of tribes or tribal companies that do not honor state child support orders - by garnisheeing the income or bank accounts of delinquent parents - is murky.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Kelley Weiss 2011

  • The number of tribes or tribal companies that do not honor state child support orders - by garnisheeing the income or bank accounts of delinquent parents - is murky.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Kelley Weiss 2011

  • Both filings would allow the state to recover the money owed by garnisheeing Hughes' wages and bank accounts, or by placing liens on his property.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • The attorney general's office is garnisheeing $175 of the $3,000 monthly salary he earns as an investigator for Texas Defenders Service, an organization that represents death penalty defendants.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Then the state attorney general's office began garnisheeing his wages for child support that a judge decided Graves owed even though he was on death row at the time.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • To address this issue, Treasury has proposed creating anti - garnisheeing regulations.

    HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

  • Many financial institutions are violating a federal rule by garnisheeing the accounts of people who receive electronic deposits of Social Security payments.

    HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

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