remittance

English

Etymology

remit +‎ -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɪtəns/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

remittance (countable and uncountable, plural remittances)

1. The act of sending money to someone.

   remittance advice ― a letter informing that an invoice has been paid

2. Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.
3. Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 203:

     It had been built on remittances, Lamin told me, sent back by a local young man who had been doing well, driving a cab in Amsterdam, until his luck changed and the money abruptly stopped.

Usage notes

• Nowadays the last sense is the most common.
• Not to be confused with remittence (“a temporary abatement of symptoms”).

Derived terms

• remittance man, remittance woman

Translations

The act of sending money to someone.

• Finnish: rahan lähettäminen
• Maori: tukunga moni
• Polish: przekaz (pl) m, przelew (pl) m, wpłata (pl) f

Money which is sent to someone.

• Bulgarian: паричен превод m (paričen prevod)
• Dutch: overschrijving (nl) f
• Finnish: maksuosoitus (fi), rahalähetys, remissi (fi)
• French: virement (fr) m
• German: Geldüberweisung f, Überweisung (de) f
• Greek: έμβασμα (el) n (émvasma)
• Hungarian: átutalás (hu)
• Indonesian: pengiriman uang
• Italian: rimessa (it) f
• Malay: kiriman uang
• Maori: moni tuku
• Polish: przekaz (pl) m, przelew (pl) m, wpłata (pl) f, rymesa f
• Portuguese: remessa (pt) f
• Russian: де́нежный перево́д m (dénežnyj perevód), перево́д (ru) m (perevód)
• Slovene: nakazilo n
• Spanish: remesa (es) f
• Turkish: para havalesi, para transferi

See also

• money order