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noun
a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
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Origin of remittance man
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby remittance man
remissive,
remit,
remitt.,
remittal,
remittance,
remittance man,
remitted,
remittee,
remittent,
remitter,
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How to use remittance man in a sentence
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
British Dictionary definitions for remittance man
noun
a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire
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