Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of sending money to someone.

    remittance advice

  2. (countable, uncountable)Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.

    Geldüberweisung, Überweisung

    де́нежный перево́дdénežnyj perevód, перево́дperevód

    a payment of money sent to a person in another place

  3. (countable, uncountable)Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tourism is the second-largest source of hard currency earnings following remittances.

  2. The bank’s recommendation is to make remittance fees small and categorize the services as “essential” to avoid families falling into severe poverty.

  3. Does Algeria really rely on remittance?

  4. How important is remittance to Algeria?

  5. Many Algerian migrants send remittances to their families.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
money which is sent to someone:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
money which is sent to someone:

Forms

plural: remittances
Singularremittance
Pluralremittances

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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