REMITTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remittance mean? 

• REMITTANCE (noun)
  The noun REMITTANCE has 1 sense:

1. a payment of money sent to a person in another place

  Familiarity information: REMITTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMITTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A payment of money sent to a person in another place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

remission; remitment; remittal; remittance

Hypernyms ("remittance" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Derivation:

remit (send (money) in payment)

 Context examples 

When I asked him if the remittance had come, he pressed my hand and departed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I returned with the articles in time to hear the Cockney hinting broadly that there was a mystery about him, that he might be a gentleman’s son gone wrong or something or other; also, that he was a remittance man and was paid to keep away from England—p’yed ’ansomely, sir, was the way he put it; p’yed ’ansomely to sling my ’ook an’ keep slingin’ it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hiding the ravages of care with a sickly mask of mirth, I have not informed you, this evening, that there is no hope of the remittance!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But, as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a good deal to prepare in the evening, Mr. Micawber arranged that he would call at Doctor Strong's in the course of the morning (having a presentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), and propose the day after, if it would suit me better.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Until the arrival of that remittance, said Mrs. Micawber with much feeling, I am cut off from my home (I allude to lodgings in Pentonville), from my boy and girl, and from my twins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nothing has, as yet, turned up; and it may not surprise you, my dear Master Copperfield, so much as it would a stranger, to know that we are at present waiting for a remittance from London, to discharge our pecuniary obligations at this hotel.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)