garnish

Example Sentences

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Rent eats up more than half of Imeh’s take-home pay, which was slimmed after a credit-card company started garnishing part of her wages to pay off her card debts, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

That might include garnishing wages and tax refunds.

From The Wall Street Journal

Caporale also suggests swapping the traditional maraschino cherry garnish for something more elevated, like a braided twist of citrus peels.

From Salon

The announcement came a little more than a week after the Education Department had planned to start sending notices to defaulted borrowers warning them that their wages could be garnished.

From MarketWatch

The Education Department said Friday it would delay its plans to garnish the pay of defaulted student-loan borrowers.

From The Wall Street Journal