Remit

Quick meaning: Remit is a verb meaning (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

Meaning

(transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
2. (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
4. (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To diminish, abate.
7. (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

Example Sentences

to remit the performance of an obligation

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

Word Forms

• remits
• remitting
• remitted
• remytte

Synonyms for remit

Depending on context, synonyms include responsibility, purview, jurisdiction, brief, defer, table.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remand, defer, postpone, put off, slacken, shelve.

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