Meaning of "remittance man" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF REMITTANCE MAN

remittance man

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REMITTANCE MAN

Remittance man is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REMITTANCE MAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Remittance man

In 19th century British usage, a remittance man is an emigrant, often to a British colony, supported or assisted by payment of money from their paternal home. As a general term remittance man or remittance woman could mean anyone living away from home supported mainly by their family in a different house, neighborhood, city, or country regardless of their reason for being there. Such a person may be seeking business fortune, education, extended vacation, a new place for the family to move, employment, or safety from personal, family, or legal troubles. Note that in this context, money is being sent in the opposite direction to today's usual usage of the term remittance, which means money that migrants send back into their home countries.

Definition of remittance man in the English dictionary

The definition of remittance man in the dictionary is a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire.

TRANSLATION OF REMITTANCE MAN

Find out the translation of remittance man to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of remittance man from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «remittance man» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 汇款的人
• Translator English - Spanish: hombre de remesas
• English: remittance man
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रेषण आदमी
• Translator English - Arabic: التحويلات رجل
• Translator English - Russian: перевод человек
• Translator English - Portuguese: homem remessa
• Translator English - Bengali: রেমিটেন্স ম্যান
• Translator English - French: remise homme
• Translator English - Malay: Lelaki pengiriman wang
• Translator English - German: Überweisungs Mann
• Translator English - Japanese: 送金の男
• Translator English - Korean: 송금 남자
• Translator English - Javanese: Wong pengiriman dana
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chuyển tiền người đàn ông
• Translator English - Tamil: பணம் அனுப்புபவர்
• Translator English - Marathi: पैसे पाठवणारा मनुष्य
• Translator English - Turkish: Havale adamı
• Translator English - Italian: rimessa uomo
• Translator English - Polish: przekaz człowiek
• Translator English - Ukrainian: переклад людина
• Translator English - Romanian: om de remitențe
• Translator English - Greek: εμβασμάτων άνθρωπος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oorbetaling man
• Translator English - Swedish: remittering människa
• Translator English - Norwegian: remittering mann

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REMITTANCE MAN»

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Remittance Man

It is one man's story, but it is also universal, echoing the stories of the thousands of families who were forced to make impossible choices because of the differing color of their skins.

Michael E. Worsnip, 2007

Edward Shelley's Journal, 1856-61: A Victorian Remittance Man

Fresh from a stint recruiting Albanians to fight the Cossacks in the Crimean War, Edward Shelley embarked for South America, to avoid tiresome (and embarrassing) Parliamentary hearings back home.

Lawrence M. Woods, 2010

The Remittance Man

Accused of a murder he didn't commit, Daniel Naughton escapes from jail.

Steven Gray, 1998

Hilda Strafford and the Remittance Man: Two Californian ...

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

Beatrice Harraden, 2010

The Range Men: Pioneer Ranchers of Alberta

To the ordinary Western mind, a remittance man was a rich Englishman who had proven a failure in his homeland and had been shipped into the raw land to kill himself in quiet or to work out his own regeneration if possible. Usually the ...

Leroy Victor Kelly, 2009

Quarterly Review of the Michigan Alumnus

^HE THING ABOUT a Remittance Man, of course, is that no one ever knows for sure whether or not he is a Remittance Man. Where we lived as homesteaders on the Alberta prairie, as well as in mining and lumber camps from the Black Hills to  ...

‎1959

Remittance Man

Gripped by a land boom as frantic as the 1850s gold rush fever, the entrepreneurs of Melbourne in 1885 are making fortunes.

Nara Lake, 2008

The Remittance Man: A Tale of a Prodigal, and the Scoring of ...

aDEAN RUTHVEN, living in England, had a son, George.

W. A. Fraser, 2008

The Remittance Man

George Shipman came from a respectable middle class family.

Kenneth Ward, 2009

The Letters of a Remittance Man to His Mother

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).

William Henry Pope Jarvis, 2010

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REMITTANCE MAN»

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Sprinter Sacre makes it special day for Nicky Henderson

We tried it with Remittance Man in the King George [three miles at Kempton] and he nearly won. Nicky Henderson, trainer, successful, Sacre, My tent or yours ... «Express.co.uk, Apr 13»

Sprinter Sacre is odds on to join greats after Queen Mother …

Henderson has trained top two-mile chasers during his 35-year career, including 1992 Champion Chase winner Remittance Man — a racing professional who ... «Daily Mail, Mar 13»

Nicky Henderson praises Sprinter Sacre

'In a bit of work at home, Sprinter would be in another league (to Remittance Man). Sprinter has that touch of real class and I think he'd win (if they met). I don't ... «Daily Mail, Dec 12»

Hold out for fair exchange

I must have been about 15 when I studied Remittance Man at school. Written by the late, great Australian poet Judith Wright, it is about a 19th-century practice ... «The National, Aug 12»

Cheltenham Diary: Oakley rounds up tale of the Man who picked …

Oakley has concentrated on the characters and his favourite tale in the book concerns the Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Remittance Man. «Independent, Mar 11»