remit
verb (used with object)
to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
had been remitting
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past perfect progressiveof remit.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The dead man's wife lived in Toowoomba, and as the manager had been remitting money from her husband to her, he informed her of the latter's death.
From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by W. H. (William Henry) Corfield
