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

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