remittance
/rɪˈmɪt(ə)ns
/noun
1A sum of money sent in payment or as a gift: complete your booking form and send it together with your remittance...
- In a statement issued here today, the bank informed that the branch will provide a window to non-resident Indians for sending remittances to their families in India.
- Waiters, gardeners and grape pickers send home monthly remittances averaging about $200 per family.
- Roughly twenty percent of Moldova's population of 4.3 million work abroad and send remittances back home.
Synonyms
payment, settlement, money, fee;
cheque, money order, transfer of funds
technical negotiable instrument
formal monies
allowance, sum of money, consideration
1.1 [mass noun] The action of sending money in payment or as a gift: remittance may be made by credit card...
- According to the police, a total of 11 cases of illegal remittance to China involving a total of 120 billion yen were uncovered during the period from 1992 to 2001.
- Some of the other issues complained of were the dilapidated state of their palaces, late remittance of chiefs' allowances and failure by Government to procure uniforms for chiefs retainers.
- He was a nineteenth-century male immigrant to Australia who was financially supported by regular remittance of funds from his wealthy or aristocratic family back home.
