Term: garnishment: a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee
Candidate hypernym: court order: a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: numen: a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cattle breeding: breeding cattle → 0
Candidate hypernym: monohybrid cross: hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) → 0
Candidate hypernym: chokecherry: a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds → 0
Candidate hypernym: lead pencil: pencil that has graphite as the marking substance → 0
Candidate hypernym: open sesame: a magical command; used by Ali Baba → 0
Candidate hypernym: common garter snake: a garter snake that is widespread in North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: joint: a disreputable place of entertainment → 0
Candidate hypernym: knothole: a hole in a board where a knot came out → 0
Candidate hypernym: ecballium: exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber → 0