remittance
Americannoun
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the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance.
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money or its equivalent sent from one place to another.
noun
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payment for goods or services received or as an allowance, esp when sent by post
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the act of remitting
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Origin of remittance
Explanation
A remittance is a payment that gets sent somewhere else. If you get a bill in the mail, you will usually have at least a week to send your remittance. To "remit" is to send money or make a payment and what you send is called remittance. Buying anything from a website involves a remittance — usually from a grownup's credit card, just as keeping your cell phone going requires a regular remittance to cover minutes and messages. If you go on a trip and run out of money, you might need an emergency remittance for a plane or train ticket to get home.
Vocabulary lists containing remittance
Human Geography - High School
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On one hand, PayPal’s assets, which also include Venmo, Braintree and remittance products, “are deeply synergistic,” wrote Bernstein analyst Harshita Rawat.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
PayPal launched its dollar-backed stablecoin with Paxos Trust in 2023 and has incorporated its stablecoin into its remittance service, Xoom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The remittance tax could squeeze Indian household budgets, dampen consumption and investment, and undermine one of India's steadiest sources of foreign exchange, warns a brief by the Delhi-based Centre for WTO Studies.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
In some households, remittance money is “spent on something without any benefit for the family,” said Castillo Villegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
That the panic inside Wall Street firms had begun before June 25 suggested to Michael Burry mainly that the Wall Street firms might be working with inside information about the remittance data.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Kenya relies heavily on remittances from workers abroad.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Total remittances and material goods to the island amounted to $3 billion last year, according to Emilio Morales of the Havana Consulting Group, a Miami-based market-intelligence firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Indian businesses are facing cash-strapped consumers, reeling from shortages in cooking gases, and seeing sharp spikes in cost of living and lower remittances.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
"Kerala continued to rely heavily on remittances from abroad, which have wavered, creating mounting fiscal pressures and inadequate employment generation, especially among youth," says Ruparelia.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
It was a belated admission that tens of thousands of famine-stricken North Koreans had already gone to China and that the country was increasingly dependent on their remittances.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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