remittance

remittance

English

Etymology

remit +‎ -ance

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, Hamish Hamilton, 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

Translations

The act of sending money to someone.

Maori: tukunga moni

Money which is sent to someone.

Bulgarian: паричен превод m (paričen prevod) 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) Italian: rimessa (it) f Maori: moni tuku 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