Remit
[rɪ'mɪt] or ['rimɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; 'they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life'.
(verb.) diminish or abate; 'The pain finally remitted'.
(verb.) forgive; 'God will remit their sins'.
(verb.) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.
(verb.) release from (claims, debts, or taxes); 'The taxes were remitted'.
(verb.) send (money) in payment; 'remit $25'.
Checked by Ida--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(v. t.) To restore.
(v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
Typist: Ora
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Return, restore, replace, send back.[2]. Relax, diminish, abate, bate.[3]. Forgive, pardon, absolve, excuse, overlook, pass over.[4]. Resign, surrender, give up, deliver up.[5]. Transmit, forward, send.
v. n. Slacken, abate, lessen, diminish, decrease, grow less.
Typist: Tim
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Relax, pardon, absolve, forego, discontinue, surrender, forgive, resign
ANT:Increase, intensity, enforce, exact
Typed by Chloe
Definition
v.t. to relax: to pardon: to resign: to restore: to transmit as money &c.: to put again in custody: to transfer from one tribunal to another: to refer for information.—v.i. to abate in force or violence:—pr.p. remit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. remit′ted.—n. (law) a communication from a superior court to one subordinate.—ns. Remit′ment act of remitting; Remit′tal a remitting: surrender; Remit′tance that which is remitted: the sending of money &c. to a distance: also the sum or thing sent; Remittēē′ the person to whom a remittance is sent.—adj. Remit′tent increasing and remitting or abating alternately as a disease.—ns. Remit′ter one who makes a remittance; Remit′tor (law) a remitting to a former right or title—(obs.) Remit′ter.
Typed by Cecil
Examples
- It might not, however, be necessary to remit any part of the American revenue in gold and silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At length he had got so much of it that I was distressed to think what I should do in case of being called on to remit it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His little Petersham-hat seemed to have been _remit de nouveau_, for the third time, at leaSt. Lord! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Horace Walpole, writing in 1760, states: I passed through Sheffield, a business town in a charming situation, with 22,000 inhabitants, and they remit ￡11,000 a week to London. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He accepted, and promised to remit me what he owed me out of the first money he should receive; but I never heard of him after. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Their rents are remitted to them in sugar and rum, the produce of their estates. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He remitted, however, to his brother punctually, and wrote to his little boy regularly every mail. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So the fines were remitted, and Mr. Jinks found a couple of bail in no time. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Caleb