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Six example sentences with remittance, each labelled with its topic.
Every month his remittance arrives from the shipyard abroad, and it covers school fees for both of his sisters.
Economics
Banks take three days to clear a remittance from overseas, and the fee usually eats a tenth of small transfers.
Finance
A remittance from a cousin in the city kept the farm afloat through two bad harvests in the 1880s.
History
A phone app now carries her remittance home in minutes, where the post office once took three weeks.
Technology
The minister proposed a tax on every remittance leaving the country, and migrant workers protested outside parliament.
Politics
The corner grocery doubles as a remittance counter, and the owner earns more from transfers than from selling rice.
Business
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