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UK
/ɹɪmˈɪtəns/
]
[ US /ɹəˈmɪtəns, ɹiˈmɪtəns/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈmɪtəns, ɹiˈmɪtəns/ ]
NOUN
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
How To Use remittance In A Sentence
- Migrants who emigrated with their entire immediate families are less likely to send remittances to their remaining extended relatives.
- Incorrect amounts will be returned for proper remittance.
- He was a nineteenth-century male immigrant to Australia who was financially supported by regular remittance of funds from his wealthy or aristocratic family back home.
- A bank erroneously credited its customer's account twice with the amount of a single remittance.
- There is too little competition and transparency in remittance markets, where transfer fees tend to be unrelated to cost. Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: The Final Battle in the War Against Poverty
- These networks moved in both directions across the Atlantic, bringing immigrants in and sending remittances home.
- In the case of Ghana, cash remittances total roughly US $250 million a year.
- In a statement issued here today, the bank informed that the branch will provide a window to non-resident Indians for sending remittances to their families in India.
- However in hard economic times Irish emigrants had sent remittances home to sustain their families in Ireland.
- Remittance growth is down, global capital flows are slowing and the weather may not be as clement as for the past two years. Breaking Manila's Cycle of Corruption