remit
remit Lexical Profile
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• verb
To send money in payment of a bill, invoice, or financial obligation, especially by mail or electronic transfer.
"Please remit the remaining balance within thirty days of receiving the invoice."
To cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting a debt, tax, fine, or punishment.
"The governor agreed to remit the remainder of the prisoner's sentence on humanitarian grounds."
To refer a matter or legal case to another authority or lower court for decision or further action.
"The supreme court decided to remit the dispute to the district judge for a new hearing."
To diminish, slacken, or abate in intensity (especially of symptoms of an illness or severe pain).
"With consistent physical therapy and medication, her chronic joint inflammation began to remit."
• noun
British The task, area of activity, or scope of authority officially assigned to an individual or organization.
"Reforming the national tax code falls completely outside the committee's current remit."
An item, case, or issue referred to another authority or committee for consideration and judgment.
"The appellate court reviewed the remit from the lower tribunal before issuing its final ruling."
Word Nuance & Usage
As a verb, 'remit' is typically stressed on the second syllable (ri-MIT), whereas the chiefly British noun meaning an area of official responsibility is often stressed on the first syllable (REE-mit).
• Rhymes for remit
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English remitten, borrowed from Latin remittere ('to send back, slacken, forgive'), formed from re- ('back') and mittere ('to send').