## Meanings
1. To send money in payment for something.
2. The area of activity or authority that a person or group is responsible for.
3. To cancel or refrain from enforcing a debt, penalty, or punishment.
4. To gradually lessen or ease.

## Examples
- Please remit the full amount within thirty days of receiving the invoice.
- Investigating fraud falls outside the committee's remit.
- The court agreed to remit part of the fine.
- The pain finally remitted after a few hours.

## Synonyms
- brief
- jurisdiction
- purview
- responsibility

## Derived Forms
- nonremitted
- remitless
- remitment
- remittable
- remittal
- remittance
- remittee
- remitter
- unremitted
- unremitting

## Related Forms
- mandate
- mission
- remission
- remittent

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *mey- (change)
- Root: remitten
- Root: remittō

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

## AI Etymology
Remit is from Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter. Important recorded forms include *mey- (change) (Proto-Indo-European), remitten (Middle English), and remittō (Latin). Current senses include to send money in payment for something and the area of activity or authority that a person or group is responsible for. The wider family includes derived forms such as nonremitted, remitless, remitment, remittable, and remittal; related words such as mandate, mission, remission, and remittent.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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