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US
/ɹiˈmɪt/
]
[ UK /ɹˈiːmɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈiːmɪt/ ]
VERB
-
send (money) in payment
remit $25 -
hold back to a later time
let's postpone the exam -
diminish or abate
The pain finally remitted -
release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
The taxes were remitted -
forgive
God will remit their sins - make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
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)
How To Use remit In A Sentence
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
- He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Payment will be remitted to you in full.
- The government extended its remit as part of crime prevention across the aviation industry.
- Here location at the two extremities of the peninsula has involved a striking difference in ethnic infusions in the two districts, different historical careers owing to different vicinal grouping, and dissimilar geographic conditions. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
- After prepping and draping the patient's extremity, the surgeon makes a stab incision and inserts the arthroscope into the knee joint through a standard inferolateral portal.
- In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity.
- This is consistent with patrilocal residency patterns-the remittance goes to the husband's family, from both of them.
- Until 1999, we remitted no sums by way of hire for the 3 ships.
- Agencies that have thought their only remit was to address minority issues must reassess the way they work. Times, Sunday Times
