Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To transmit (money) in payment.
- intransitive verb To refrain from exacting (a tax or penalty, for example); cancel.
- intransitive verb To pardon; forgive.
- intransitive verb To restore to a former condition or position.
- intransitive verb To refer (a case) to another court for further consideration or action.
- intransitive verb To refer (a matter) to a committee or authority for decision.
- intransitive verb To allow to slacken.
- intransitive verb To transmit money.
- intransitive verb To diminish; abate.
- noun A matter remitted for further consideration.
- noun Chiefly British An area of responsibility; scope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, a remission; a sending back.
- noun A formal communication from a body having higher jurisdiction, to one subordinate to it.
- To send back.
- To transmit or send, as money, bills, or other things in payment for goods received.
- To restore; replace.
- To transfer.
- In law, to transfer (a cause) from one tribunal or judge to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction. See
remit , n. - To refer.
- To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
- To slacken; relax the tension of; hence, figuratively, to diminish in intensity; make less intense or violent; abate.
- To refrain from exacting; give up, in whole or in part: as, to
remit punishment. - To pardon; forgive.
- To omit; cease doing.
- Synonyms To forward.
- To release, relinquish.
- To slacken; become less intense or rigorous.
- To abate by growing less earnest, eager, or active.
- In medicine, to abate in violence for a time without intermission: as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.
- In com., to transmit money, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax
- intransitive verb To send money, as in payment.
- transitive verb To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
- transitive verb obsolete To restore.
- transitive verb (Com.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc..
- transitive verb To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. “
Remitting them … to the works of Galen.” Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. - transitive verb To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
- transitive verb To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
- transitive verb To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
forgive ,pardon . - verb To
give up , stop succumbing to (a negative emotion etc.). - verb To allow (something) to slacken, to
relax (one's attention etc.). - verb obsolete To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
- verb obsolete To
diminish ,abate . - verb To
refer (something) fordeliberation ,judgment , etc. (to a particular body or person). - verb To
postpone . - verb To
transmit orsend , as money in payment. - noun chiefly UK
terms of reference; set of responsibilities.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Commission's remit is to assess what should be the goals of America's Human Space flight program.
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Our remit is to catch crook and by and large we are left to get on with it.
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I think we have a role as community leaders, and part of our remit is to intervene positively not just bang kids up.
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Around that time the watch word was ‘core policing’ and there were attempts to get the Police to follow a certain remit, which did not include helping people locked out of their houses, stray dogs and other good will type jobs.
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The publishing remit is to publish the best creative writing by UK university students.
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The publishing remit is to publish the best creative writing by UK university students.
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Re TUPCs list of woes - another example of the response officers remit is everything.
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Thomas -- whose remit is to promote public access to official information and protect personal data -- insisted the authors of the report, which he commissioned, were not scaremongering by painting a
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Maximo Park's remit is F.U.N. And as for Greg's comments, yes Warp seem to be putting a lot of weight behind the marketing of Maximo Park, but surely if you judge music based on the amount of money spent on them and not on the quality of the songs then LIFE IS WORTHLESS?
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Agreed, Midland: as I’ve noted before, the ICC’s remit is to deal with situations where domestic jurisdiction is either unavailable or politically problematic, and ideally avoiding the “victors’ justice” often associated with war crimes trials.
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oroboros commented on the word remit
Timer in reverse.
July 22, 2007
shanvrolijk commented on the word remit
The repetition adds to the sense of the unremitting loss of individual dignity and invasion of personal space.
March 1, 2018