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remittance man

noun

  1. a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.


remittance man

noun

  1. a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of remittance man1

First recorded in 1885–90
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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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