noun
Meaning 1
The act of sending money to someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- remittance advice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
remittance
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹɪˈmɪtəns/
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CMU ARPABET: R IY0 M IH1 T AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R AH0 M IH1 T AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a payment of money sent to a person in another place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: remittal, remission, remitment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: payment
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English remit Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English remittance From remit + -ance.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 匯款 /汇款 (huìkuǎn) — act of sending money to someone
- Finnish: rahan lähettäminen — act of sending money to someone
- Finnish: maksaminen — act of sending money to someone
- Finnish: maksu — act of sending money to someone
- Māori: tukunga moni — act of sending money to someone
- Polish: przekaz — act of sending money to someone
- Polish: przelew — act of sending money to someone
- Polish: wpłata — act of sending money to someone
- Spanish: remesa — act of sending money to someone
- Bulgarian: паричен превод (paričen prevod) — money which is sent to someone
- Chinese Mandarin: 匯款 /汇款 (huìkuǎn) — money which is sent to someone
- Dutch: overschrijving — money which is sent to someone
- Finnish: maksuosoitus — money which is sent to someone
- Finnish: rahalähetys — money which is sent to someone
- Finnish: remissi — money which is sent to someone
- French: virement — money which is sent to someone
- German: Geldüberweisung — money which is sent to someone
- German: Überweisung — money which is sent to someone
- Greek: έμβασμα (émvasma) — money which is sent to someone
- Hungarian: átutalás — money which is sent to someone
- Indonesian: pengiriman uang — money which is sent to someone
- Italian: rimessa — money which is sent to someone
- Malay: kiriman uang — money which is sent to someone
- Māori: moni tuku — money which is sent to someone
- Polish: przekaz — money which is sent to someone
- Polish: przelew — money which is sent to someone
- Polish: wpłata — money which is sent to someone
- Polish: rymesa — money which is sent to someone
- Portuguese: remessa — money which is sent to someone
- Russian: де́нежный перево́д (dénežnyj perevód) — money which is sent to someone
- Russian: перево́д (perevód) — money which is sent to someone
- Slovene: nakazilo — money which is sent to someone
- Spanish: remesa — money which is sent to someone
- Turkish: para havalesi — money which is sent to someone
- Turkish: para transferi — money which is sent to someone