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remittance|rɪˈmɪtəns|
[f. remit v. + -ance.]
1. A sum of money sent from one place or person to another; a quantity of some article sent in this way; also, the act of sending money, etc., to another place.
1705Addison Italy 471 A Compact among private Persons furnish'd out the several Remittances. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4808/2 The Swedish Commissary..has..received a Remittance of one hundred thousand Crowns. 1769Robertson Chas. V, xi. III. 310 His remittances into England had drained his treasury. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1852) III. 63 He had invested great sums in jewels, then a very common mode of remittance from India. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. xviii. (1880) 328 A distant relative..took possession of the family estate, and further remittances..were stopped. 1880Markham Peruv. Bark 408 The Dutch Government bought a portion of the remittance of C. Calisaya seeds.
2. remittance man, an emigrant who is supported or assisted by remittances from home (cf. remittancer); also fig. So remittance-farmer.
1886Pall Mall G. 10 Feb. 11/1 He was what is called in the colonies a ‘remittance man’. 1894C. L. Johnstone Canada 30 The Canadians divide the English gentlemen settlers into ‘farmers who work, remittance farmers, and buckboard farmers’. 1897B. Harraden Remittance-Men 185 Remittance men never do any good. 1903[see palouser]. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman iii. 93 Everyone would sneer at the fellow from London, The limey remittance man for whom a job was made. 1969Listener 9 Jun. 42/2 I'd arrived at the end of the line already: the proclaimed remittance man of an obsolete social system. 1975C. Aird Slight Mourning vii. 69 ‘Last heard of in the backwoods of Queensland.’.. ‘A remittance man, I'll be bound.’
Hence reˈmittancer, (a) one who sends a remittance; (b) a remittance man.
1806R. Cumberland Mem. 435 Your Memorialist was stopped and arrested at Bayonne by order from his remittancers at Madrid. 1849E. B. Hodge Keith Kavanagh p. v, A ‘Remittancer’ or ‘Remittance Man’ is, in colonial parlance, a Ne'er-do-well living in the colonies on quarterly remittances received from friends ‘at home’. |