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
• Guatemalans living abroad wired $9.3 billion in remittances last year, most from the US.
  — Ana Campoy, Quartz, 23 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So what explains these rising or steady remittance flows?
  — Laura Caron, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2020
• The change also applies to Xoom, PayPal's global remittance platform, the company said in a blog post.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• On Saturdays, much of the town went to a small shop packed with specialty groceries, medicine with Spanish labels and piñatas to withdraw their salaries and send home remittances.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Foreign remittances from his sons, including a third who still lives in Germany, helped pay for the construction of his three-story home.
  — CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• For decades, Guatemalans living in the U.S. have helped shore up their ancestral nation’s revenue stream by sending back remittances.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Those lucky enough to have friends and relatives living abroad waited in line to pick up monthly remittances at a Western Union office that opened during the brief respite.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• More recently, Gulf money, from tourism and also remittances, dried up, as a result of sanctions against Hezbollah, which has been fighting in Syria on the side of the regime.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
• The only people who seemed to be getting by were the families living off remittances from relatives in the United States.
  — Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• If such means of remittance were embraced as standard legal practice, what a wonderful world this would be.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• That's because hundreds of thousands of Filipinos work abroad in the Middle East and send billions of dollars home annually in the form of remittances.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
• Since 2022, the company has launched credit cards, mobile point-of-sales units, a service for clients to receive remittances and personal loans.
  — Carolina Millan, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
• The central bank in Georgia, which also sends migrant workers to Italy, expects total remittances to fall by almost a third this year.
  — Aine Quinn, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have all had remittance increases of 25 percent to 30 percent this year.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
• Much of their purchasing power in Mexico comes from remittances sent by male relatives who work in the U.S.
  — Rebecca Janzen, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
• Mallers also believes Strike will come to challenge Western Union as a remittance service.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024