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remittance

noun
/ɹɪˈmɪtəns/

Etymology

From remit + -ance.

  1. derived from remittō — “to send, send back”
  2. inherited from remitten
  3. formed as remittance — “remit + -ance”

Definitions

  1. The act of sending money to someone.

    • remittance advice

  2. Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.

  3. Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.

    • It had been built on remittances, Lamin told me, sent back by a local young man who had been doing well, driving a cab in Amsterdam, until his luck changed and the money abruptly stopped.

The neighborhood

Derived

remittance man, remittance woman

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for remittance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA