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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remit
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He filed a tax return but failed to remit what he owed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.
▪ Apparently the intention of the testator is to remit a debt, so this is in effect a bequest of liberatio.
▪ I have considered whether this is a case which I should remit for hearing before the justices.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ Poor households had their rates bill reduced or remitted altogether under the housing benefit scheme.
▪ The airline collected the tax and remitted it to the federal government.
▪ The memorandum was remitted to the officers of both bodies for detailed consideration and report at a subsequent meeting.
▪ When the item is sold, the amount loaned against the item must be remitted to the lender.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wide
▪ So while the County of London Plan was still in preparation, Abercrombie was at work on his wider remit.
▪ Walker has a very wide remit.
▪ Originally developed as a means to ensure compliance with regulations, environmental auditing now has a much wider remit for many companies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But problems remain in connection with the scope of the tribunal's remit.
▪ Each of them will have its own integrity, its own remit and its belief in its own purpose.
▪ For there are large chunks of the remit of little or no interest to the advertisers.
▪ However these considerations are not part of the remit of the panel.
▪ Its remit, however, is limited to improving the economic viability of meat production on hill and upland farms.
▪ The new remit has to be clear about the purpose and contribution of members, corporately and individually.
▪ The preponderance of directly managed units in the new arrangements could affect the remit of authorities in another way.
▪ Their remit is not to charge or discipline officers, but to uncover exactly what has gone on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remit

Remit \Re*mit"\, v. i.

  1. 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.

  2. To send money, as in payment.
    --Addison.

Remit

Remit \Re*mit"\ (r?-m?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Remitting.] [L. remittere, remissum, to send back, to slacken, relax; pref. re- re- + mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Remise, Remiss.]

  1. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

    In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
    --Blackstone.

    In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
    --Hayward.

    The prisoner was remitted to the guard.
    --Dryden.

  2. To restore. [Obs.]

    The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty.
    --Hayward.

  3. (Com.) 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.

  4. To send off or away; hence:

    1. To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. ``Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen.''
      --Sir T. Elyot.

    2. To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. ``Whether the counsel be good I remit it to the wise readers.''
      --Sir T. Elyot.

  5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

    So willingly doth God remit his ire.
    --Milton.

  6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

    Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them.
    --John xx. 23.

  7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. ``The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties.''
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: To relax; release; abate; relinguish; forgive; pardon; absolve.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remit

late 14c., "to forgive, pardon," from Latin remittere "send back, slacken, let go back, abate," from re- "back" (see re-) + mittere "to send" (see mission). Meaning "allow to remain unpaid" is from mid-15c. Meaning "send money (to someone)" first recorded 1630s. Related: Remitted; remitting.

Wiktionary
remit

n. (context chiefly British English) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. vb. 1 To forgive, pardon. 2 To refrain from exacting or enforcing. 3 (lb en transitive obsolete rare) To give up; omit; cease doing. 4 To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.). 5 (context obsolete English) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality. 6 (context obsolete English) To diminish, abate. 7 To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person). 8 (lb en obsolete) To send back. 9 (lb en archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign. 10 To restore or replace. 11 To postpone. 12 To transmit or send, as money in payment.

WordNet
remit
  1. n. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment]

  2. [also: remitting, remitted]

remit
  1. v. send (money) in payment; "remit $25"

  2. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, put off]

  3. release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The texes were remitted"

  4. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committe or authority or court for decision [syn: remand, send back]

  5. forgive; "God will remit their sins"

  6. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken]

  7. diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"

  8. [also: remitting, remitted]

Wikipedia
Remit

Remit, REMIT, or derivations thereof may refer to:

Usage examples of "remit".

Court of Aldermen unanimously decided that no part of the agreement should be minished or remitted.

July 1603 King James had been over two months happily resident in England and had recently remitted recusant fines.

An underpaid sleuth with a cubby-hole and a nightstick and a remit to keep one eye on the shifty characters who walked in off the street and an even beadier eye on the dodgy ones who worked there.

Apres un bonjour echange, il se remit en marche, et, au lieu de continuer la grande route, prit le vieux chemin qui montait droit a la colline.

The tax of danegelt, so generally odious to the nation, was remitted in this reign.

The Mexican army, in its retreat, shall not take the property of any person without his consent and just indemnification, using only such articles as may be necessary for its subsistence, in cases when the owner may not be present, and remitting to the commander of the army of Texas, or to the commissioners to be appointed for the adjustment of such matters, an account of the value of the property consumed, the place where taken, and the name of the owner, if it can be ascertained.

The queen now committed affairs to the Marquis de Palmella, and issued proclamations restoring liberty of the press, and remitting the exorbitant burial fees demanded by the priests, which had been enforced by the government: these measures restored peace.

Eucharist, Extreme Unction, and by all the sacraments of the New Law without exception, wherein grace is conferred, venial sins are remitted.

Church of our Saviour little children believe through others, just as they contracted from others those sins which are remitted in Baptism.

And consequently, when the insincerity passes away, subsequent sins are indeed remitted, but by Penance, not by Baptism.

Wherefore they are not remitted, like the sins which preceded Baptism, as to the whole debt of punishment.

If therefore, by means of one of them, some venial sin is remitted, it follows that in like manner all are remitted, so that by beating his breast once, or by being sprinkled once with holy water, a man would be delivered from all his venial sins, which seems unreasonable.

Because just as past sins are remitted by subsequent Penance, so are deeds previously done in charity, deadened by subsequent sin.

When the indulgence of Theodoric had remitted two thirds of the Ligurian tribute, he condescended to explain the difficulties of his situation, and to lament the heavy though inevitable burdens which he imposed on his subjects for their own defence.

Petersburg, and to remit me through him every month a sum which would keep me in comfort.