REMITTANCE MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remittance man mean? 

• REMITTANCE MAN (noun)
  The noun REMITTANCE MAN has 1 sense:

1. an exile living on money sent from home

  Familiarity information: REMITTANCE MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMITTANCE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exile living on money sent from home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("remittance man" is a kind of...):

exile; expat; expatriate (a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country)

 Context examples 

I returned with the articles in time to hear the Cockney hinting broadly that there was a mystery about him, that he might be a gentleman’s son gone wrong or something or other; also, that he was a remittance man and was paid to keep away from England—p’yed ’ansomely, sir, was the way he put it; p’yed ’ansomely to sling my ’ook an’ keep slingin’ it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)