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remitter
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person living in Canada on money remitted from his family in the Old Country, usually to insure that he did not return home to become a source of embarrassment.
See: remittance man
Quotations
1896
There is a class of men who are called "Remitters" or "Remittance-men."