Remittance
[rɪ'mɪt(ə)ns] or [rɪ'mɪtns]
Definition
(n.) The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.
(n.) The sum or thing remitted.
Typist: Ruth
Examples
- When I asked him if the remittance had come, he pressed my hand and departed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the war before last, tobacco being low, and making little remittance, the people of Virginia went generally into family manufactures. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- 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! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- With the advance of summer, and the increase of the distemper, rents were unpaid, and their remittances failed them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The remittances had not arrived from India, Mr. Sedley told his wife with a disturbed face. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Rupert