Remittance man
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For the racehorse, see Remittance Man (horse).
In British history, a remittance man was an emigrant, often from Britain to a British colony, who was supported by regular payments from home on the expectation that he would stay away.
In this sense, remittance means the opposite of today's meaning of money that migrants send to their home countries.