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UK
/ɹɪmˈɪtəns/
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[ 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
- This is consistent with patrilocal residency patterns-the remittance goes to the husband's family, from both of them.
- Hereafter no remittances shall be made for annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne.
- Early wealth in Barbados was built on remittances sent back by emigrants who went to Panamá to build the canal. Think Progress » Mark Krikorian: ‘Haiti’s So Screwed Up Because It Wasn’t Colonized Long Enough’
- In Singapore, there are no restrictions on the amount of capital investment, nor on the repatriation of capital or remittance of profits.
- Such deposits and share contributions will end on August 30, to allow for remittance of money to input suppliers.
- A year later, the new government, having learnt the lesson the hard way, lifted the freeze on profit remittances.
- As well, I wholly agree with your assessment of global labor arbitrage, e.g. migrant worker remittances or Richard Florida's 'plug-and-play communities', the impact of which I believe has been underrated, particularly wrt global capital movement. Policy in a Fog, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- This last feature also had the unintended consequence of reducing the inflow of remittances form foreign workers, which has been an important source of sustenance of Pakistan's balance of payments.
- She sends a small remittance home to her parents each month.
- Courcelles succeeded in robbing the prisoners who were in his charge in a more cautious manner than his predecessor; he, in short, contrived to subtract something for himself from any remittances which reached them, and paid them francs for livres. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1