remittance

English

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remittance

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Etymology

From remit +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɪtəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

remittance (countable and uncountable, plural remittances)

1. The act of sending money to someone.

   remittance advice ― a letter informing that an invoice has been paid

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.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 203:

     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.

Usage notes

• Nowadays the last sense is the most common.
• Not to be confused with remittence (“a temporary abatement of symptoms”).

Derived terms

• remittance man, remittance woman

Translations

The act of sending money to someone.

Chinese: Mandarin: 匯款 / 汇款 (zh) (huìkuǎn) Finnish: rahan lähettäminen, maksaminen (fi), maksu (fi) Maori: tukunga moni Polish: przekaz (pl) m, przelew (pl) m, wpłata (pl) f Spanish: remesa (es) f (rare)

Money which is sent to someone.

Bulgarian: паричен превод m (paričen prevod) Chinese: Mandarin: 匯款 / 汇款 (zh) (huìkuǎn) Dutch: overschrijving (nl) f Finnish: maksuosoitus (fi), rahalähetys, remissi (fi) French: virement (fr) m German: Geldüberweisung f, Überweisung (de) f Greek: έμβασμα (el) n (émvasma) Hungarian: átutalás (hu) Indonesian: pengiriman uang Italian: rimessa (it) f Malay: kiriman uang Maori: moni tuku Polish: przekaz (pl) m, przelew (pl) m, wpłata (pl) f, rymesa f Portuguese: remessa (pt) f Russian: де́нежный перево́д m (dénežnyj perevód), перево́д (ru) m (perevód) Slovene: nakazilo n Spanish: remesa (es) f Turkish: para havalesi, para transferi

See also

• money order