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as in payments
something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services
she always mails in her remittance on time so she won't ever be charged a late fee on her electric bill
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as in disbursements
the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services
the remittance of your outstanding balance is required before you can make more purchases
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Recent Examples of remittances
Other merits from the global dispersion of the Indian workforce include the economic gains from an increase in remittances, Kumar added.
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Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
If they are massively deported, Mexico could see tens of thousands of its countrymen and women deported home without jobs, no longer able to send the remittances that keep many Mexican households afloat.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Biden lifted the ban on flights and remittances and kept the rest intact.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Pragmatic migration strategies will be of benefit to depopulating societies in the generations ahead—bolstering their labor forces, tax bases, and consumer spending while also rewarding the immigrants’ countries of origin with lucrative remittances.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Their remittances, which contracted by 32 percent in comparison with the same period in 2014, were largely what kept Tajikistan’s fledgling economy afloat.
—Steve Swerdlow, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2016
Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
If they are massively deported, Mexico could see tens of thousands of its countrymen and women deported home without jobs, no longer able to send the remittances that keep many Mexican households afloat.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Biden lifted the ban on flights and remittances and kept the rest intact.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Pragmatic migration strategies will be of benefit to depopulating societies in the generations ahead—bolstering their labor forces, tax bases, and consumer spending while also rewarding the immigrants’ countries of origin with lucrative remittances.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Their remittances, which contracted by 32 percent in comparison with the same period in 2014, were largely what kept Tajikistan’s fledgling economy afloat.
—Steve Swerdlow, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2016
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“Remittances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remittances. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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