Usually means: Seizure of property by court.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrestment: Merriam-Webster
  2. arrestment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arrestment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. arrestment: Wordnik
  5. arrestment: Wiktionary
  6. Arrestment, arrestment: Dictionary.com
  7. Arrestment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Arrestment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. arrestment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Arrestment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. arrestment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. arrestment: FreeDictionary.org
  13. arrestment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrestment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. arrestment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arrestment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrestment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. arrestment: Medical dictionary

(Note: See arrest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (arrestment)

noun:  The action of arresting (in any sense)
noun:  (law, Scotland) The process that prohibits a debtor from making payment to the creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid.

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