garnishee

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: gar=nish=ee

CIDE DICTIONARY

garnishee, n. 

 One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.  [1913 Webster]
" The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order."  [1913 Webster]

garnishee, v. t. 

 To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

garnishee, n. & v. Law
--n. a person garnished.
--v.tr. (garnishees, garnisheed)
1 garnish (a person).
2 attach (money etc.) by way of garnishment.

ROGET THESAURUS

garnishee

Consignee

N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.