remit
IPA: rimˈɪt
noun
- (chiefly Britain) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
verb
- (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
- (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
- (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To diminish, abate.
- (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- (transitive, obsolete) To send back.
- (transitive, archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
- (transitive) To restore or replace.
- (transitive) To postpone.
- (transitive, obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
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Examples of "remit" in Sentences
- What remits the outcome
- How did he remit the pain
- It is outside the remit of the UK.
- Doctors used chemicals to remit the pain.
- The lack of information remits the project.
- The letter was remitted to the French king.
- Is this within the remit of the discography
- It was difficult for him to remit the procedure.
- It's an appalling abuse of the remit of the Committee.
- Is it the remit of an administrator to adjudicate in such a way
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