earnest money vs remittance

earnest money

noun
  • Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate. 

remittance

noun
  • The act of sending money to someone. 

  • Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country. 

  • Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country. 

How often have the words earnest money and remittance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )