REMIT (remitted, remitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: remitted    , remitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does remit mean? 

• REMIT (noun)
  The noun REMIT has 2 senses:

1. the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with

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

  Familiarity information: REMIT used as a noun is rare.

• REMIT (verb)
  The verb REMIT has 7 senses:

1. send (money) in payment

2. hold back to a later time

3. release from (claims, debts, or taxes)

4. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

5. forgive

6. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

7. diminish or abate

  Familiarity information: REMIT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life

Hypernyms ("remit" is a kind of...):

issue; matter; subject; topic (some situation or event that is thought about)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

remission; remit; remitment

Hypernyms ("remit" is a kind of...):

referral (the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

remit (refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision)

• REMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remit    ... he / she / it remits   
Past simple: remitted   
Past participle: remitted   
-ing form: remitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send (money) in payment

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

remit $25

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

"Remit" entails doing...:

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

remitment; remittal; remittance (a payment of money sent to a person in another place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hold back to a later time

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

defer; hold over; postpone; prorogue; put off; put over; remit; set back; shelve; table

Context example:

let's postpone the exam

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

"Remit" entails doing...:

reschedule (assign a new time and place for an event)

call off; cancel; scratch; scrub (postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remit"):

call (stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather)

hold (stop dealing with)

suspend (render temporarily ineffective)

probate (put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence)

reprieve; respite (postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Release from (claims, debts, or taxes)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The taxes were remitted

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

remand; remit; send back

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

challenge (issue a challenge to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

remission; remit; remitment ((law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Forgive

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

God will remit their sins

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

remit; slacken

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

loose; loosen (make loose or looser)

Cause:

slacken (become looser or slack)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remit"):

douse; dowse (slacken)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Diminish or abate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The pain finally remitted

Hypernyms (to "remit" is one way to...):

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

remission; remittal (an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease))

remittent ((of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity)

 Context examples 

Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three-year outcomes from an ongoing clinical trial suggest that high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by transplantation of a person's own blood-forming stem cells may induce sustained remission in some people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS).

(Stem cell transplants may halt progression of multiple sclerosis, NIH)

How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those pecuniary liabilities, in reference to which he had been so business-like as between man and man; how Janet, returning into my aunt's service when she came back to Dover, had finally carried out her renunciation of mankind by entering into wedlock with a thriving tavern-keeper; and how my aunt had finally set her seal on the same great principle, by aiding and abetting the bride, and crowning the marriage-ceremony with her presence; were among our topics—already more or less familiar to me through the letters I had had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)