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To transmit, supply or send, especially money or payment
“If tea or other goods are bought in the interior, the bank can remit the payment through correspondent banks.”
To make a payment by sending a sum of money
“Currently, the tax code encourages firms to retain earnings and remit income to shareholders through share repurchases.”
To delay or postpone
“The movers refused Mr. Tierney's request to remit the motion.”
To diminish or show an abatement
“It has been suggested that few marital problems remit spontaneously.”
To stop, cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting
“The Government undertook to remit his sentence on condition of his remaining on good behavior for four years.”
To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, etc.)
“She cannot remit your sin, if there were no other reason but her having so many of her own.”
To disregard as unimportant or insignificant
“But what is harder to remit than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats.”
To refer (a matter for decision) to an authority
“The appropriate course for me to take is to remit the matter to the disciplinary committee.”
To hand over or expend (money) as a payment or distribution of funds
To remove from suspicion or guilt
To provide a monetary refund or repayment
To give or transfer possession of something to another
To obstruct or get in the way of an operation or process
To set aside or reserve for a particular purpose
To cleanse, typically by removing contaminants from
To abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study)
Plural for the task or area of activity officially assigned to an individual or organization
“Some doctors seek to widen their professional remit to cover the entire range of human experience.”
Plural for the scope, extent, or bounds of something
Plural for a set of instructions given to a person about a job or task
Plural for a responsibility or duty assigned to someone
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