remit

Meanings

1. 1
   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

2. 2
   verb

   diminish or abate

   The pain finally remitted

3. 3
   verb

   forgive

   God will remit their sins

4. 4
   verb

   release from (claims, debts, or taxes)

   The taxes were remitted

5. 5
   verb

   send (money) in payment

   remit $25

6. 6
   verb

   To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

   Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;

7. 7
   verb

   To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

   Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

8. 8
   verb

   To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

   to remit the performance of an obligation

Etymology

From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.