remittancern.

1750 Genuine Acct. Life & Actions J. Maclean 8 Her Ladyship out of her Goodness, prevailed with..the Irish Remittancer, to make a Subscription for him..in order to send him to the West-Indies.

1888 E. H. D'Avigdor Antipodean Notes xxiii. 170 The remittancer generally spends his monthly allowance in three days, living very badly on credit till his money next arrives.

1894 E. B. Hodge Keith Kavanagh p. v A ‘Remittancer’ or ‘Remittance Man’ is, in colonial parlance, a Ne'er-do-well living in the colonies on quarterly remittances received from friends ‘at home’.

1915 Windsor Mag. Mar. 540/1 His folk in the Old Country sent him out to New Zealand and paid him to stay there. He was a mouth now, a 'remittancer'.

1751 S. Jenyns Gentle Refl. upon Reason for National Militia 357/1 Such a constant demand for Money..gave to the Jews, Stock-jobbers, Remittancers, and all such usurious Contractors, such an influence on the Public Affairs.

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. 435 Your Memorialist was stopped and arrested at Bayonne by order from his remittancers at Madrid.

1988 M. G. Quibria & M. Thant in M. Dutta Res. in Asian Econ. Stud. I. b 288 There is now a considerable body of empirical studies on labor migration to the Middle East and the remittancers arising therefrom.

2003 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 20 Dec. The other reasons..had been steady inflows through exporters and private remittancers, improved Foreign Direct Investment and rising prices of the yellow metal.