remittance man

noun

remittance man

a man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire

First recorded in 1885–90

First of all, I noted Oldburgh's best-known 103 remittance man.

Nor did he move until the burly remittance man had pulled himself together.

He was a remittance man with a remarkable constitution, and he lasted seven years.

I had an English remittance man working for me once and he told me so.

We are by no means all millionaires, and our idea is not to make this colony a pleasure ground for the remittance-man.

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