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remittance women

remittance women is the plural of remittance woman.

Meaning of remittance woman

Noun

remittance woman (plural remittance women)

  1. (historical) A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.
    • Here, in the western solitude, lived for several years—the veriest remittance woman—the girl who should now, by the right of love and honor, be the Princess of Wales; and whose infant daughter should have been the heir to the throne.1908, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Alaska, The Great Country

Questions about remittance women

What is remittance women the plural of?
Remittance women is the plural of remittance woman.

Words near remittance women in the dictionary

  1. remittals
  2. remittance
  3. remittance man
  4. remittance men
  5. remittance woman
  6. remittance women
  7. remittances
  8. remittant
  9. remitted
  10. remittee
  11. remittees

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