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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
▪ As I mentioned in my letter to you of 25 May, our Finance Department can not trace having received your remittance.
▪ Controls on capital and profit remittances Debt problems, at the extreme, cause capital flight.
▪ Did you ever sec Signor Greenleaf sign any of those remittances?
▪ Enough wealth has trickled back to the rural areas in the form of remittances to keep the lid on discontent.
▪ He would have told the bank he lost the remittance and would have had them send him another.
▪ The Central Bank has frozen all remittances of profits, dividends and interest.
▪ This flow was paralleled by remittances to the City of customs and tax revenues from the district collectors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary

Remittance \Re*mit"tance\ (r?-m?t"tans), n.


  2. The sum or thing remitted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary



n. A payment to a remote recipient.


n. a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittal, remission, remitment]


A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in his or her home country. Money sent home by migrants competes with international aid as one of the largest financial inflows to developing countries. Workers' remittances are a significant part of international capital flows, especially with regard to labour-exporting countries. In 2014, $436 billion went to developing countries, setting a new record. Overall global remittances also totaled $583 billion. Some countries, such as India and China, receive tens of billions of US dollars in remittances each year from their expatriates. In 2014, India received an estimated $70 billion and China an estimated $64 billion.

Usage examples of "remittance".

Sir Thomas, he finds far more pleasure in agrostology than he would ever find as a remittance man, and what is more, he knows it.

He opened a desk, and rummaging in it, found a letter addressed to the Proveditor of Corfu, advising a remittance of three thousand sequins for the repair of the fortress.

As in that letter he alludes to his embarrassment on account of remittances, it is probable that the neglect of his agent, with respect to them, was the main cause which induced him to determine on going no farther.

After begging pardon for having intruded upon your family at these hours, I must now tell you that my cousin, Count Melvil, was some time ago so much misrepresented to his mother by certain malicious informers, who delight in sowing discord in private families, that she actually believed her son an extravagant spendthrift, who had not only consumed his remittances in the most riotous scenes of disorder, but also indulged a pernicious appetite for gaming, to such a degree, that he had lost all his clothes and jewels at play.

I saw the gallows before me, for nobody would lend me the money, and they would not wait for my remittance from Venice to reach me.

This eventually proved to be an accumulation of annual payments from thousands of poor homesteaders whose remittances had never been recorded, and who, in many a case, would surely be evicted from their lands on score of non-payment of dues.

With him things were going as well as he had anticipated, and before long he was able to make substantial remittances, but his letters were profoundly sad.

At home, when the doors were closed, Lepailleur revenged himself on his wife, picking the most frightful quarrels with her since he had discovered her frequent remittances of money to their son.

It seemed he was expecting remittances, and the mother would be delighted to see her daughter a marchioness.

And on the 2nd June Casanova, doubtless feeling his helplessness in the matter of money, and the insufficiency of his occasional remittances, and suspicious of Francesca's loyalty, wrote her a letter of renunciation.

I replied, "but just now I am awaiting remittances, and have very little money about me.

By these means he was disencumbered of divers considerable remittances, with which his father cheerfully supplied him, on the supposition that they were spent with taste and liberality, under the direction of our adventurer.



A bad boy, a remittance man, a rogue company spy masquerading as a petty criminal—.