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Remittance definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REMIT'TANCE, n.
1. In commerce, the act of transmitting money, bills or the like, to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.
2. The sum or thing remitted in payment.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1705 1. a. a sum of money remitted b. an instrument by which money is remitted 2. transmittal of money (as to a distant place)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 money sent, esp. by post, for goods or services or as an allowance. 2 the act of sending money. Phrases and idioms: remittance man hist. an emigrant subsisting on remittances from home.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remittance Re*mit"tance (r?-m?t"tans), n. 1. 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. 2. The sum or thing remitted. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(remittances) A remittance is a sum of money that you send to someone. (FORMAL) Please enclose your remittance, making cheques payable to Thames Valley Technology. = payment N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, allowance, amortization, amortizement, binder, cash, cash payment, clearance, consideration, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, liquidation, monthly payments, never-never, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, retirement, satisfaction, settlement, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, weekly payments