How to Use remittance in a Sentence

remittance

noun

• Remittance can be made by check or credit card.
• In contrast, remittance costs in Africa range from 3% to as high as 20%.
  — Roselyne Wanjiru, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Include the remittance stub or write the account number on the check.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2022
• The city’s payroll changed the banking remittance and the new bank flagged the money as fraudulent and returned the funds to the city.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 15 Feb. 2022
• Tonga and Haiti receive most of their remittances from the US.
  — Youyou Zhou, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2020
• Jobs became scarce, and the fall of the Brazilian real meant that the remittances migrants sent home were worth far less.
  — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
• Their lives ran on the rhythms of phone cards and remittance payments and scratch-off lottery tickets.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• Guatemalans living abroad wired $9.3 billion in remittances last year, most from the US.
  — Ana Campoy, Quartz, 23 July 2019
• Residents can send a check by U.S. Mail to the remittance address shown on their bill.
  — Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• The surging tide of remittances from the United States has also played a role in driving up the peso.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Last year, remittances made up nearly 12% of the country’s GDP.
  — Ana Campoy, Quartz, 23 July 2019
• But with most of the world’s economies hurting, that remittance stream has also dwindled.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The World Bank predicts that remittances from migrant workers will drop by 20% this year.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• Many Africans depend upon remittances from their friends and families from around the world, like from the United States.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2020
• More Cubans started living on cash remittances sent from the United States.
  — Frances Robles and Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• The remittance is 10% of their federal EITC tax rebate or $50.
  — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2021
• But the records showed no evidence of any payroll remittances.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• Facebook has been keen to plug Libra as a solution for remittances to poor countries and for the unbanked.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 18 July 2019
• Dairy workers go there to send home remittances and buy familiar foods like nopales and plantain chips.
  — Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 26 May 2023
• Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have all had remittance increases of 25% to 30% this year.
  — Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2021
• In 2019 the World Bank predicts that remittances will be the largest source of external financing for such countries.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Remittances from people in America to Cubans won’t be cut off.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 16 June 2017
• The Bank of Mexico tracks how much the country receives in remittances on a monthly basis.
  — AJC.com, 17 Nov. 2016
• The first reports about Libra suggested that it would be used for remittances in India.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 18 June 2019
• So what explains these rising or steady remittance flows?
  — Laura Caron, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2020
• But the halt on the processing of remittances suggests the effects of the cyber attack might been broader than publicly announced.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• The demand for cash remittances is so big in fact that migrants sometimes line up outside Western Unions the night before the branches open, sleeping on the sidewalk to keep their place in the queue.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The change also applies to Xoom, PayPal's global remittance platform, the company said in a blog post.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• In five Mexican states, remittances make up 10% or more of annual GDP.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• In reversing Obama’s policy of open engagement, Trump rolled back travel freedoms and impeded Cuban Americans from sending remittances to friends and relatives.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024