remittance man

American  

noun

1. a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.

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remittance man British  

noun

1. a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire

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Etymology

Origin of remittance man

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Founding father of the Open Air Campaigners was a 19th century remittance man named Ned Field, exiled from England for unspecified wrongdoing, who felt that he had been cured of cancer in answer to prayer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador.

From Time Magazine Archive

He combines the characteristics of a disillusioned moralist with the casualness of an old- fashioned remittance man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dave Rennie, reading beside a lantern, nodded silently and, introduced to Chetwood, regarded him with disfavor, as a remittance man, one of the balloon-pants brigade.

From The Land of Strong Men by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)