remit
Plural: remits
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)
- Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
Verb
Verb Forms: remitted, remitting, remits
- To send money as payment; to cancel or refrain from enforcing.
- send (money) in payment
- "remit $25"
- hold back to a later time
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
- "The taxes were remitted"
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
- forgive
- "God will remit their sins"
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- diminish or abate
- "The pain finally remitted"
- To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- To give up; omit; cease doing.
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
- To diminish, abate.
- To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- To send back.
- To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
- To restore or replace.
- To postpone.
- To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
Examples
- I had to REMIT my challenge after realizing my opponent’s obscure word was indeed valid.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
Synonyms
defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remand, remission, remitment, send back, set back, shelve, slacken, table, brief, jurisdiction, purview, responsibility
Scrabble Score: 7
remit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordremit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
remit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary