remittance

remit +‎ -ance

remittance (countable and uncountable, plural remittances)

1. The act of sending money to someone.

   remittance advice ― a letter informing that an invoice has been paid

2. Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.
3. Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 203:

     It had been built on remittances, Lamin told me, sent back by a local young man who had been doing well, driving a cab in Amsterdam, until his luck changed and the money abruptly stopped.

• Nowadays the last sense is the most common.
• Not to be confused with remittence (“a temporary abatement of symptoms”).

• remittance man

• money order