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remittance man
noun
- a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
remittance man
noun
- a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire
Word History and Origins
Origin of remittance man1
Example Sentences
We did not ask each other’s business there; and, judging by the dogs and gun, we put him down as a ‘remittance man.’
In one version the Murphy character is a used-car salesman in the Bronx who falls in love with Shivas’s daughter and winds up a remittance man in Tahiti.
Bethune, who lay upon the shingle in garments much the worse for wear, was a “remittance man,” with a cheerful expression and a stock of unvarying good humor.
Stripped of details, it amounted to this: Some five years before a fine English mare which had been the property of a deceased remittance man, had been auctioned off.
The timber wolf I trimmed out because he wasted around like a remittance man.
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