Word: garnishments
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: gar
nish
ments
Definition: Plural of 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
Morphemes:
Affix: garnish
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: garnir
Language: fro
Decoded: garnir
PoS: Verb
Meaning: to arm (provide with arms)
Affix: -ment
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, the nouns having the sense of "the action or result of what is denoted by the verb".
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ment
Language: fro
Decoded: -ment
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, usually of action or state resulting of them. Equivalent to the English -ment.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.