attachment
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
attachment/əˈtatʃmənt/
▶noun
- 1 an extra part or extension attached to perform a function.
■ a computer file appended to an email.
- 2 affection or fondness.
■ an affectionate relationship.
- 3 the action of attaching.
- 4 Brit. temporary secondment to an organization.
– phrases
attachment of earnings English Law payment of debts by direct deduction from the debtor's earnings, under a court order.
attachment of earnings English Law payment of debts by direct deduction from the debtor's earnings, under a court order.
'attachment' also found in these Oxford entries:
acropetal
- aponeurosis
- apophysis
- arrestment
- avulsion
- basipetal
- biceps
- Bonapartism
- clingfish
- commutator
- decurrent
- distal
- faceplate
- fin
- fixate
- flash
- flipper
- fluke
- frog
- grip
- hang
- hilum
- hydroplane
- insertion
- Italianism
- love
- multivalent
- origin
- particularism
- proximal
- root
- scolex
- snoot
- specialty
- stalk
- starburst
- strain gauge
- trencher
- triceps
- wrist
