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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gar·nish·ment /ˈgɑrnɪʃmənt/
 添飾,扣押債權的通知,出庭傳票

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gar·nish·ment n.
 1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
 2. Law (a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. (b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
 3. A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 garnishment
      n : 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