Remit - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈriːmɪt|  American pronunciation of the word remit
Brit.  |ˈriːmɪt|  British pronunciation of the word remit

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
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) (syn: remission)

verb

- send (money) in payment
remit $25
- hold back to a later time (syn: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table)
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
The taxes were remitted
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision (syn: remand)
- forgive
God will remit their sins
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness (syn: slacken)
- diminish or abate
The pain finally remitted

Extra examples

Please remit $1,000 upon receipt of this letter.

Payment can be remitted by check.

The governor remitted the remainder of her life sentence.

Every farmer has the rent of his farm remitted for the next thirty years.

I have never remitted my attention to business.

The pain has remitted.

The storm has remitted.

All questions of cost will be remitted to the officer in charge of the accounts.

We must for the present remit our reply.

He had recently remitted a great part of his fortune to Europe.

Please remit payment by cheque.

Marketing is outside our remit.

The taxes were remitted

God will remit their sins

The pain finally remitted

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: remit
he/she/it: remits
present participle: remitting
past tense: remitted
past participle: remitted
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