Definition

1. Verb:

   • To send money, especially as payment: To transmit or send money, typically to a person or place.
   • To cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting (a debt, punishment, etc.): To forgive, pardon, or refrain from demanding payment or imposing a penalty.
   • To refer (a matter or case) for decision, judgment, or action to another authority: To send back or transfer a legal case or issue to another court or committee.
   • To diminish or abate; to become less intense: To slacken, lessen, or become less severe.

2. Noun:

   • An area of authority, responsibility, or task assigned: The scope of the duties or authority given to a person or group.
   • The act of referring a legal case to another court: (Law) The transfer of a case from one court to another.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Please remit the payment by the end of the month.
  • The governor decided to remit the prisoner's sentence.
  • The court will remit the case to a lower court for further review.
  • The storm's intensity finally began to remit.

• Noun:

  • The committee's remit is to review environmental policies.
  • The remit of the appeal was to the Supreme Court.

Advanced Usage

• "To remit to": To refer or consign a matter to someone or something.

  • The complex technical question was remitted to a panel of experts.

• "Within one's remit": Falling within the scope of one's duties or authority.

  • Budgetary decisions are not within my remit; you must speak to the finance director.

Variants and Related Words

• Remittance (n): The act of sending payment, or the sum of money sent.

  • He sends a monthly remittance to his family.

• Remiss (adj): Negligent or careless in performing one's duty.

  • It was remiss of me to forget your birthday.

• Remission (n): The cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty; or a temporary decrease in the severity of an illness.

  • The bank announced the remission of the loan.
  • The patient's cancer is in remission.

Synonyms

• Verb: Send, transmit, forward, dispatch, cancel, forgive, pardon, abate, subside, refer, transfer.
• Noun: Brief, mandate, scope, terms of reference, authority, responsibility.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Remit" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meanings are typically expressed directly or with prepositions like "to" as shown in Advanced Usage.)

Related Idioms

• "Beyond one's remit": Outside the scope of one's authority or assigned task.
  • Making hiring decisions is beyond my remit in this department.

Noun

1. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
2. 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

Verb

1. diminish or abate
   • The pain finally remitted
2. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
3. forgive
   • God will remit their sins
4. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
5. release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
   • The taxes were remitted
6. hold back to a later time
   • let's postpone the exam
7. send (money) in payment
   • remit $25