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Examples of remittance in a Sentence
Remittance can be made by check or credit card.
she always mails in her remittance on time so she won't ever be charged a late fee on her electric bill
Recent Examples of remittance from the Web
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Furthermore, according to a recent survey, 77 percent of Salvadoran and Honduran TPS holders send remittances back to relatives still in those countries.
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The World Bank estimates that remittances from abroad made up 17% of El Salvador's Gross Domestic Product in 2016.
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Filipinos overseas sent home a record $28 billion in cash remittances last year, money that helped fuel spending and sustain expansion in one of the world's fast-growing economies.
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In 2015, according to a recent World Bank report, immigrants sent more than $430 billion in remittances to developing countries — three times the total global aid to them.
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This is what happened when Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial tried to buy remittance heavyweight Moneygram and when Alibaba competitor Tencent tried to invest in Here Technologies, a digital mapmaker.
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PayPal also points out that its volumes are much higher when taking into account its namesake PayPal service and remittance platform Xoom.
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Total remittances from the United States jumped by more than 10% in the first 11 months of 2017, possibly because many Salvadoreans feared that their dollar-earning days might be numbered under Mr Trump.
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Jobs became scarce, and the fall of the Brazilian real meant that the remittances migrants sent home were worth far less.
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First Known Use of remittance
1672
remittance Synonyms
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compensation, disbursement, giving, paying, payment, remitment, remuneration;
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: an amount of money that is sent as a payment for something
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: the act of sending money as a payment for something
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