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remit

UK/ɹɪˈmɪt/US/ɹiˈmɪt/
verbC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,558 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: remitted, remitting, remits

To remit is to send money, or to cancel a debt or a penalty. Remit the payment, remit the fine, remitted to the lower court.

The money sense is the commonest worldwide, since remittances sent home by workers abroad are a larger flow than foreign aid. As a noun, stressed on the first syllable, a remit is the scope of somebody's authority.

Definitions of remit

  1. 1verbremitTo send money, or to cancel a debt or a penalty.C2

    “The court agreed to remit the fine because she could not afford to pay it.”

remit is a sending.

Where it comes from

Latin remittere means to send back, from re- plus mittere, to send.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *mey- (change)

  2. Latin

    remittō — to send, send back

  3. Middle English

    remitten

  4. English, today

    remit

From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittō (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

remit in the wild

  • All of the television and radio stations have a public service remit, including those that broadcast digitally, but not all are designated public service broadcasters.

    Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom

  • The remit of the committee is to consider the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of public business.

    Procedure Committee

  • The committee is governed by Standing Order number 147, which sets out its remit, powers, and the number of members.

    Procedure Committee

  • The remit of the committee is to consider human rights issues in the United Kingdom.

    Joint Committee on Human Rights

  • In October 2017, the forum expanded its remit to cover science and changed its name to the current title.

    Conservative Science & Technology Forum

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the remittō family

remissionremiss

remit — used about once every 23,598 pages · #13,558 · point at the bar for the others